Scudder.] 112 [June 4, 



Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited a portrait of Abbot, the au- 

 thor of the "History of some of the rarer Lepidopterous 

 Insects of Georgia." This portrait is a copy of one con- 

 tained among Abbot's original drawings in the British 

 Museum. 



Mr. Scudder explained the object of a collection of orthop- 

 terological illustrations, prepared by placing upon separate 

 sheets of uniform size figures cut from plates. The whole 

 can be arranged in systematic order, as in a card catalogue, 

 and is very convenient for classification and reference. 



Mr. Scudder also exhibited a figure of an English fossil 

 insect which had' been described as Lepidopterous, and as one 

 of the Satyridce. The original specimen belongs to Mr. 

 Charles worth, and the reverse to the Jermyn St. Museum. 

 The neuration seems impossible for a Lepidopterous insect, 

 and resembles that of the Cicadce more nearly than any- 

 thing else, but differs in the nervures at the base. In Mr. 

 Brodie's collection Mr. Scudder found pupae of Cicadince, 

 which correspond to this insect in size, and are found at the 

 same, or nearly the same, geological horizon. 



June 4, 1873. 



The President in the chair. Sixteen persons present. 



Dr. Thos. Dwight, Jr., showed a seventh cervical vertebra 

 of a woman, in which a rib took the place of the lower trans- 

 verse process. He also exhibited a foetal porpoise, one side 

 of which was dissected in order to show the skeleton in situ. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Messrs. F. G. 

 Frothingham and P. T. Barnum, and to Mrs. R. C. Green- 

 leaf, Jr., for donations to the Museum. 



