Meetings.] 242 [Dec. 2, 



General Meeting, Nov. 4, 1885. 



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



Mr. F. T. Hazelwood, of Lynn, was elected an Associate 

 Member. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam referred to the discovery of the mastodon 

 skull at Shrewsbury a year ago, and described the continuation of 

 the exploration of the peat deposit this autumn by the Worcester 

 Society of Natural History, when a human skull was found. As 

 stated to him by Dr. Raymenton, who took out the human skull, 

 both skulls lay on the blue-clay bottom of an ancient pond and 

 were covered with from six to eight feet of peat formation., 



Prof. Win. M. Davis discussed the formation and age of boul- 

 der and brick clays. 



Mr. Putnam showed an implement chipped from a pebble of black 

 flint, found by Dr. C. L. Metz in gravel, eight feet below the sur- 

 face, in M,adisonville, Ohio. This rude implement is of about the 

 same size and shape of one made of the same material found by 

 Dr. Abbott in the Trenton, N. J., gravel, and is of special interest 

 as the first one known from the gravels of Ohio. 



General Meeting, Nov. 18, 1885. 



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



The President stated that this was the seventy-fifth birthday 

 of Dr. Asa Gray, and showed a photograph of a silver vase pre- 

 sented to him by one hundred and eighty American botanists, 

 in commemoration of the event. / 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes gave the results of a paper on deep-sea 

 Medusae, showing and describing some genera collected by the 

 U. S. Fish Commission on the steamship Albatross. 



Dr. G. L. Goodale discussed the influence of forests upon the 

 atmosphere. ' 



The President announced the death of Dr. Wm. B. Carpenter, 

 an Honorary Member of the Society. 



General Meeting, Dec. 2, 1885. 



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

 Mr. Scudder discussed briefly the classification of fossil scorpions 

 and reviewed Brongniart's recent prodrome of palaeozoic insects. 



