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in the moist earth and developed after the water returns. Allowing, for the 

 sake of argument, the possibility of the development of the minnow from ova 

 so deposited, the fish should have reappeared as early as April, but thus far, 

 June 3d, no trace of them can be found, 



I shall continue to follow up this subject and will report to the Society any 

 further development which I may observe. 



JULY 26th, 1888. 

 The President in tlie Chair. 



Books Received. 



Musemn of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge: Memoirs, Vol. 

 XIII, No. 9, 



Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery, Philadelphia : 

 Vol. IX, No. 3, 



Smithsonian Institution : Eeport, 1885, Part 2, 



Verein fiir Naturkunde, Offenbach : Berichte 26-28. 



Hydrogi'aphic Bureau, Washington, D. C. : Storm and Weather 

 Charts. From Vice-President K. P. Archer, 



Member Elected, 



TnoMi^ RoYLE, Esq. 



VOL. n. 27 Published Mch., 1889. 



