Meetings.] 258 [November 21, 



Dr. B. J. Jeffries called the attention of the Society to the 

 renewed attempt to open Jourdain's Gallery of Anatomy, and 

 offered a resolution petitioning the City Council to withhold 

 a license. 



Dr. H. W. Williams seconded the motioH of Dr. Jeffries, 

 stating his reasons for hoping that the resolution would be 

 passed by the Society. 



Dr. Jeffries then gave at length the history of the so-called Gallery 

 of Anatomy, describing the character of the exhibition and its 

 harmful influence on the morals and health of the city; in concluding 

 he apologized for bringing the matter before the Society, but he 

 believed the public should be thoroughly awakened to the nature of 

 6uch exhibitions. 



The resolution was then put to vote and passed unanim- 

 ously. 



Dr. Carl Semper, of Wtirzburg, gave an account of the 

 anatomy and habits of Onchidium, a genus of littoral mol- 

 luscs which he had studied in the Philippine Islands. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. G. O. Welch, 

 of Lynn, for his gift of the Lapland Longspur, exhibited at 

 the last meeting. 



General Meeting. November 21, 1877. 



Vice President, Mr. S. H. Scudder, in the chair. Twenty- 

 nine persons present. 



Mr. S. W. Garman read a paper on some features of erosion 

 in the Temperate Zone. 



Mr. C. S. Minot made some remarks on recent German 

 investigations on the development of Lepidoptera, Bryozoa 

 and Crustacea, which seemed to confirm his views of the sig- 

 nificance and growth of the primitive germinal layer. 



