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Mr. Ridler also described various stone implements, chiefly from 

 the neighborhood of Kingston, and now in collections of citizens 

 of that place. 



General Meeting, April 1, 1885. 



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



Dr. E. B. Tylor of London and Prof. Adolph Bastian of Berlin 

 were elected Honoraiy Members. Prof. Carl Semper of Wiirz- 

 burg was elected a Corresponding Member. 



Prof. G. F. Wright gave an account of his investigations dur- 

 ing last summer upon the southern boundary of the glaciated 

 area, tracing it across Illinois, running a few miles south of Car- 

 bondale (where excellent strise were found upon the bed rock), 

 and reaching the Mississippi River a little above Grand Tower. 



General Meeting, April 15, 1885. 



Vice President, Mr. F. W. Putnam, in t.he chair. 



Mr. Putnam showed a composite photograph, combining the 

 pictures of seventeen officers of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, made by Mr. W. Curtis Taylor of Phil- 

 adelphia. This was printed from a negative taken from seventeen 

 photographs, each exposed about live seconds. 



Mr. Percival Lowell read a paper on the evil-spirit creed of the 

 Koreans. 



Annual Meeting, May 6, 1885. 



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



After the records of the preceding and the last Annual Meeting- 

 had been read, the Chairman in fitting words alluded to the 

 death of Dr. Samuel Cabot ; speaking of his long connection with 

 the Society and of the extent of his ornithological studies, and 

 announced that his family had expressed their intention to present 

 to the Society the rarer and type specimens from his private col- 

 lection of birds. 



The following reports were presented : 



PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. VOL. XXIII. 15 APRIL, 1886. 



