Proceedings.] 224 [Feb. 18, 



General Meeting, Feb. 18, 1885. 



The President, Mr. S. H. Scudder, in the chair. 



A memoir on the Palaedictyoptera, by Mr. S. H. Scudder, was 

 presented by title. 



The Secretary read the following letter from Mr. W. G. Bin- 

 ney: 



To the Boston Society of Natural History : 



In accordance with what I believe would be the wishes of my 



father, the late Dr. Amos Binney, I give absolutely to the Society 



the Binney Library and the oil portrait of my father, by Harding, 



deposited by my mother, but now my property under my father's 



will. 



W. G. BINNEY. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Binney for this 

 valuable gift. The library numbers 975 volumes and a small number 

 of pamphlets, including many rare and important works. 1 



Letters were read from Profs. Ferdinand Cohn of Breslau, Paul 

 Mayer of Naples, F. Fouque, E. J. Marey and A. M. Levy of Paris, 

 acknowledging their election as Corresponding Members. 



General Meeting, March 4, 1885. 



The President, Mr. S. H. Scudder, in the chair. 



Dr. E. G. Gardiner gave some of the results of his paper, re- 

 cently published by the University of Leipzig, on the development 

 of the epitrichium in birds. 



Professor Hyatt made a few remarks on mechanical evolution, 

 referring particularly to his theory of the origin of the noto- 

 chord and to Cope's explanation of vertebral segmentation. 



General Meeting, March 18, 1885. 



Vice President, Mr. F. W. Putnam, in the chair. 



Mr. C. E. Ridler read an annotated list of the rarer plants of 



Kingston, Mass. 



iSee Proc.Bos. Soc. Nat. Hist., VI, pp. 97-107. 



