Annual Meeting.] 324 [May 5, 



The following members were elected : 



Associate Members: Mr. Francis S. Child and Dr. Wm. I). 

 Hodges. 



Corporate Member : Mr. Roland Ha)* ward. 



Corresponding Members : Prof. Lorin W. Bailey, Fredericton, 

 "N. B., and Mr. Alfred W. Howett of Sale, Gippsland, Victoria. 



Dr. G. L. Goodale occupied the rest of the evening with an in- 

 teresting abstract of a paper on Plasmolysis. 



General Meeting, May 19, 1886. 



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



A letter from Mr. Douglas H. Campbell acknowledging the 

 award to him of the Walker Prize, and thanking the Society for 

 the honor, was read. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam described the methods of manufacture of 

 stone implements by primitive man, and showed a collection of 

 jade celts, chisels and other objects from New Zealand, the Swiss 

 Lake Dwellings and Peru. He also showed various ornaments 

 from Peru made out of old jade celts, indicating early migration 

 from Asia to America, for these Peruvian specimens are of a jadite 

 of Chinese character, while the mineral is not found in place in 

 America. 



Dr. C. S. Minot reviewed the question of the origin and morph- 

 ology of the mesoderm, showing the relation between the anasto- 

 mosing tissue of the mesoderm and the epithelium. 



General Meeting, October 6, 1886. 



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



The President announced the death of Prof. William Ripley 

 Nichols, at Hamburg, July 14, after an active membership of fif- 

 teen years. 



The following paper was read : — 



