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ured four feet one and one-fourth inches in circumference, and rising 

 without division, maintained a size approaching this and gradually 

 lessening, for six or seven feet. Another trunk measured three feet 

 four inches in girth above the first limb or fork ; below it, at nearly 

 one foot from the ground, it measured four feet and four inches. The 

 measurements were taken Sept. 2, 1876, by Dr. George Engelmann, 

 Win. M. Canby and Asa Gray. 



General Meeting. January 17, 1877. 



The President, Mr. T. T. Bouve, in the chair. Thirty- 

 one persons present. 



Messrs. C. W. Kerapton, fm. M. Davis, Jr., C. W. Scud- 

 der, Win. S. Bryant, Misses E. A. Chandler, and A. C. Taber 

 were elected Associate Members. 



Dr. David Hunt read a paper on the Closure of the First 

 Branchial Cleft in the Mammalia, describing the develop- 

 ment of the ear in the pig. 



Dr. T. M. Brewer made some remarks on the eggs of Mo- 

 lothrus bonariensis. 



The eggs of this parasitic bird are of several entirely different kinds 

 in respect to form, size and color, being thus adapted to escape de- 

 tection in the nests of the different birds on which the Molothrus is 

 parasitic. Paintings of three kinds of eggs were exhibited. 



Mr. J. H. Huntington showed and described a new ma- 

 chine for cutting and polishing rock sections. 



The following resolutions on the death of Mr. F. B. Meek, 

 a Corresponding Member of the Society, were offered by Mr. 

 Hyatt, and adopted. 



Resolved: That the members of this Society have heard with the 

 deepest regret of the decease of one of the most highly esteemed of 

 its Corresponding Members, Mr. F. B. Meek, of Washington. 



Their admiration can add but little to his reputation, which is 

 sec ured by the numerous works of which he has been the author. 



