1884.] Proceedings of Scientific Societies: 657 
On the application of trinomial nomenclature to zodlogy. Elliott Coues. 
Some recent results of the oral and aural teaching of the deaf under the continned 
syst E. M. Gallaudet (by invitation). 
implements from Alaska. F. W. Clarke. 
t ress in electrical fuses. Henry L. Abbott. 
The volcanic sand which fell at Unalashka, Oct. 20, 1883, and some considerations 
concerning its composition. J. S. Diller (by invitation). 
Biographical memoirs of Gen. G. K. Warren, by Henry L. 
Abbott; of Professor Stephen Alexander, by L. A. Young; of 
Dr, J. Lawrence Smith, by B. Silliman, and of Dr. John L. Le- 
Conte, by S. H. Scudder, were read at an evening session of the 
my. 
_Biorocicat Society or WASHINGTON, April 5.—Communica- 
tions by Dr. Leonhard Stejneger on the shedding of the claws in 
ptarmigan; by Mr. William H. Dall on the fishery exports of 
Francisco in 1883 ; by Professor C. V. Riley on rusty oranges; 
r. F. A. Lucas exhibited a series of skulls of American Canide; 
Dr. D. E. Salmon remarked on the recent outbreak of the so-called 
foot and throat disease” in the West; Dr. E. P. Howland on 
the effects of anzsthetics on the animal organization, with experi- 
ments and clinic on animals, showing the peculiar effects of the 
new anesthetic, nitrous oxide and oxygen, administered in con- 
nsed air chambers. 
April 19.— Communications by Dr. Cyrus Thomas on the 
th of trees as a means of determining the age of mounds ; 
by Mr. John Murdoch on dredging and marine collecting at 
Point Barrow ; by Dr. Tarleton H. Bean on the distribution of 
the Salmonidæ in Alaska; Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, U.S.A., on the 
occurrence of a pair of free ribs on the occipital bone of the 
large-mouthed black bass, Micropterus salmonides, with specimen. 
New YORK ACADEMY oF SCIENCES, April 7—A paper on the 
Waraulics of the Mississippi from Cairo to the gulf was read by 
a L. Elseffer, C.E. 
il14—The following paper was read: The uniformity of 
geological climate, by Fokasa Choris B. Warring. 
| 28.—The following papers were read (in continuation of 
hee presented on March 10): 11. The “singing beaches of 
me Baltic ; Irr, The sonorous sand-hills of Arabia and Afghan- 
stan, by Professor H. Carrington Bolton. 
| Fred, Wa Society or Naturat Hisrory, April 2.— Professor G. 
boundary ar spoke of the glacial dam at Cincinnati, and on the 
Morse ' of the glaciated area of Indiana; Professor Edw. S. 
cussed the ancient and modern methods of arrow 
April 16—Dr. M | eee 
oe . M. E. Wadsworth presented a paper on the rele 
ie of the “ Keweenawan series ” a the “ Eastern sandstone T 
= “cnity of Torch lake, Michigan. 
