1877]. 77 [Scudder. 



They feel, however, that a testimonial is due from them to the 

 memory of a man whose knowledge of the whole field of American 

 Paleontology was unsurpassed; and whose life was a model of labori- 

 ous special investigation, and therefore unrewarded by public com- 

 mendation. 



As students of Natural History, they desire also to record their 

 respect for a life of such modest simplicity and devotion to science 

 for its own sake, that it merits, and will, it is hoped, receive, the 

 highest praise from the hands of Mr. Meek's fellow laborers. 



Resolved: That this resolution be recorded in the Proceedings of 

 this Society, and that copies be forwarded to the friends of the 

 deceased. 



Two specimens of the King Duck, shot and presented by 

 Messrs. G. A. Kendall and S. H. Mackay, at Saughkennet 

 Point, R. I., were shown, and the thanks of the Society were 

 voted to the donors. 



The following change in the Constitution, accepted by 

 previous vote, was finally adopted, Art. IV, first clause, 

 therefore reading : — 



Corporate Members only shall be entitled to vote, to hold any office 

 except that of Treasurer, or to transact business. 



General Meeting. February 7, 1877. 



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

 seven persons present. 



Dr. W. G. Farlow read a paper, to be published in the 

 Society's Memoirs, on our species of Gymnosporangium or 

 " Cedar-apples," and their supposed relation with Roestelia. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder offered some remarks on the phenom- 

 ena of Circulation in Insects, a subject upon which very con- 

 tradictory views had been held. 



The juices of the digested food appear to pass through the thin 

 walls of the alimentary canal directly into the general cavity of the 

 body; from here they are pumped into the hinder extremity of the 



