Bouyé.] - 124. [January 15, 
ceeding for nourishment of the progeny by any other insect or even 
any other animal. 
When I learned these interesting habits I remembered that Mr. 
Nietner some twenty years ago communicated to me just the same 
facts, observed in white ants in Ceylon. He speaks of the lumps, and 
describes them in a similar manner, and of a numerous microscopic 
fungi, the heads as large as the heads of pins, composed of small 
pearls, growing in groups with a network of roots, resembling crys- 
tals of ice or silver. Later I also remembered that a hundred years 
ago the missionary Koenig spoke of similar fungi in the nests of white 
ants in Tranquebar. I myself raised them in Konigsberg from por- 
tions of the nests sent to me by Mr. Nietner, and had them grow- 
ing for nearly a year. 
General Meeting. January 1, 1879. 
Prof. A. Hyatt in the chair. Eighteen persons present. 
Mr. L. 8. Burbank made some remarks on the chrono- 
logical evidences contained in certain rock deposits. He also 
described the structure of Rollstone Hill, near Fitchburg, 
Mass., and showed some fine cut beryls from the same locality. 
General Meeting. January 15, 1879. 
The President, Mr. T. T. Bouvé, in the chair. Forty-two 
persons present. 
After calling the meeting to order the President said: 
Since we last met, Death has once again entered our circle 
_and borne from us one of the oldest and most highly re- 
spected of the active members of the Society, Dr. J. B. S. 
Jackson. | 
To those of you who have not been members for more than 
the last decade or two of years there can be but little ap- 
preciation of the feeling experienced by those of us who were 
contemporary, or nearly so, with the founders and early 
members of the Society, when one of their number passes the 
