Annual Meeting.] 192 [May 7, 



d'Ethnographie, Moscou ; Allgemeine Schweizerische Gesellschaft 

 f. d. gesaramten Naturwissenchaften. 



Eight hundred and forty books have been borrowed from the Li- 

 brary by one hundred and nine persons. 



Publications. 



The Publishing Committee has published three parts of the 

 twenty-second volume of Proceedings. Of the Memoirs the chief 

 article published is the essay on the embryology of Oecanthus and 

 Teleas, by Mr. Howard Ayers, to which the first Walker prize 

 for 1883 was awarded. This essay forms number vin of vol. in. 

 56 pp. and 8 plates ; numbers vn and ix containing farther contri- 

 butions by Mr. S. H. Scudder to our knowledge of fossil insects 

 have also been published, and number x, containing notes on the 

 life history of the peeping frog, by Miss M. H. Hinckley, has just 

 been issued. 



Walker Prizes. 



The annual prize for 1883 for the best essay on the life history of 

 any animal was awarded to Howard Ayers of Fort Smith, Ark., and 

 his essay has been published as just stated. The second prize was 

 divided between the authors of two papers of equal merit : Mr. 

 H. W. Conn of Baltimore for an essay on the development of 

 Thalassema, and Mr. Wm. Patten of Watertown, Mass., for one on 

 the embryology of a Phryganid 1 . Lack of means prevented the pub- 

 lication of these two important papers. 



The same subject, the life history of any animal, extended to 

 include the life history of any plant, was announced for this 

 year's prize, and two essays have been offered. 



The present year being that for the award of the third Grand 

 Honorary Prize, the Council last December appointed a committee 

 consisting of Dr. Asa Gray of Cambridge, Prof. S. F. Baird of 

 of Washington, and J. S. Newberry of New York, to recommend 

 the names of one or more persons as worthy of the Prize. Their 

 report was duly made, and its recommendation adopted by the 

 Council, as will presently be announced. 



1 Published in Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci. xxiv (N. S.), 549. 



