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On the Granite of North Jay, Maine 237 



Fusibility of the Amorphous Varieties of Quartz 238 



Dr. T. M. Brewer. Remarks on Plectrophanes ornatus .... 239 

 Mr. L. J. K. Brace. Notes on Birds observed at New Providence, Ba- 

 hamas 240 



Mr. N. B. Moore. List of Birds seen in the Bahamas, July-Dec. 1876 241 



Observations on some Birds seen near Nassau 243 



Section of Botany, May 23, 1877 247 



Section of Entomology, May 23, 1877 247 



Mr. S. H. Scudder. An Insect Wing of extreme Simplicity from the 



Coal Formation 248 



Section of Entomology, June 20, 1877 250 



Messrs. Emerton and Austin. On White Mountain Insects . . . 250 



General Meeting, October 3, 1877 251 



Mr. M. E. Wadsworth. On the so-called Tremolite of Newbury, Mass. 251 

 Dr. T. M. Brewer. On the Occurrence of Micropalama himantopus in 



New England 252 



General Meeting, October 17, 1877 257 



General Meeting, November 7, 1877 257 



General Meeting, November 21, 1877 258 



General Meeting, December 5, 1877 . . . . • ■ . . . 259 

 Dr. T. M. Brewer. Remarks on the House Sparrow and the Sulphur- 

 crested Caterpillar 260 



Mr. A. E. Grote. On the Pyralid Genus Epipaschia of Clemens, and 



allied Forms 262 



General Meeting, December 19, 1877 . . . . . . .266 



Prof. Edward S. Morse. Remarks on Lingula, and Japanese Pottery 266 



Section of Entomology, December 26, 1877 267 



Mr. W. H. Hubbard. Notes on the Tree Nests of Termites in Jamaica 267 



Mr. S. H. Scudder. Note on Termes Riperti 275 



General Meeting, January 2, 1878 275 



Dr. T. Sterry Hunt. Geology of the Eozoic Rocks of North America 275 



Mr. F. W. Putnam. Remarks on the Male of the Eel .... 279 



General Meeting, January 16, 1878 281 



Section of Entomology, January 23, 1878 281 



Mr. S. H. Scudder. Remarks on Calliptenus and Melanoplus, with a 



notice of New England Species 281 



Species of Melanoplus found West of the 117th Meridian. . .286 

 Mr. Edward Burgess. The Anatomy of the Head, and Structure of 



the Maxilla in the Psocidse (Plate 8) 291 



Mr. S. H. Scudder. Rachura, a New Genus of Fossil Crustacea, (Plate 



9, fig. 3) 296 



A Carboniferous Termes from Illinois 300 



General Meeting, February 6, 1878 301 



Dr. T. M. Brewer. Notes on New England Birds, with Additions to his 



Catalogue 301 



