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Traveling of the larva of a species of Sarcophaga. W., L. Coffinberry. 
The prototype of the Cephalopoda. Alpheus Hyatt. 
SECTION H—ANTHROPOLOGY, 
An Indian secret society. J. Owen Dors 
Ancient fortifications in the Ohio valley. Geo. M. Maxwell. 
The way bone fish-hooks were made. F. W; Put 
agree limits regarding a knowledge of hie origin of languages, John 
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Tuesday, August 24th. 
a SECTION E—GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY. 
Notice of geological investigations along the eastern shore s Lake Champlain 
: conducted by Professor H. M. See ely and President Edward Brainard, of Mid- 
anes College, with descriptions of the new feast: discovered, R. P 
Remarkable i ite ane on syenite. W. H. Pitt. 
Veins of S. W, Colora . Comstock. 
On some dynam a ret of the ice sheet. F.J. H. Merrill. 
The petrified forest of Alabama. J. Dickenson, 
markable occurrence of rock crystal in the U. S. 
. F. Kun 
Some Aa oe facts bearing on the date of the close of the last glacial period. 
right. 
SECTION F—Brotocy. 
The homologies of the ear-bones in certain of the lower Vertebrata. E. D., Cope. 
Note on the RASA style in Mya arenaria; Fanny R. Hitchcock. 
Zoetic maxima. L, . Gratacap. 
Osphradium in z E Henry L. Osborn. 
SECTION H—ANTHROPOLOGY, 
Some giva osm de a greater antiquity for the ancient Chiricaños than is generally 
cede McNiel, 
Some wake on the possibility of the PEATA of the human teeth. J. R. 
oe of ‘be seein grandfather and serete among the Siouan tribes. J. Owen 
Pinoy et on the analysis of the Mexican inscriptions and codices. Zelia 
l nart. 
a diversity of the mounds and earthworks of the United States. F. W. Putnam. 
zori of New Zealand as compared with other members of the Polynesian 
group, iiller, 
ie salt kettles and pans of the mound-builders. W. McAdam 
= old copper kettle of Spanish origin from a mound in Tllinois. W. McAdams. 
€ testimony of some recently explored mounds. Cyrus Thomas 
R ohig officers were elected for the next meeting: 
ident, S. P, Langley, of Allegheny, Pa. ; vice-presidents, A. 
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ng and engineering, Eckley B. Coxe, of Drifton, Pa.; E Geol- 
geography, G. K. Gilbert, of Washington, b. C. E 
» W. G. Farlow, of Cambridge, Mass.; H. Anthropology, 
