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We are most of us familiar with the excited feeling provoked among tur- 

 keys on seeing a red dress; also on cattle and cows. Fish and frogs are caught 

 with red rags or red feathers. The timid antelope of the prairies is lured 

 within rifle-shot by a red handkerchief displayed from the end of the 

 hunter's ram-rod. The wild bulls of the Spanish arena are provoked into 

 fury by the displaying of the banners of the matadores. If, then, these 

 animals are thus influenced so powerfully, how much more effect for good 

 or evil must be produced on the human race, which possesses such a com- 

 plex and delicate organization of mental and nervous structure. 



A number of color sketches were exhibited by the speaker, and exam- 

 ined with interest by the members present. 



The donations for the month were announced as follows: From Geo. 

 W. Campbell, Delaware, 0., "Seventeenth Annual Report of the Ohio 

 Horticultural Society;" from U. S. National Museum, " Proceedings of 

 the U. S. National Museum," Vol. VII., Nos. 10 to 21 ; from D. L. James, 

 "Smithsonian Report for 1861; Report of U. S. Coast Survey 1859-1860;" 

 from N. H. Winchell, First, Tenth and Eleventh "Annual Reports of the 

 Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey ; " from A. P. Butler, 

 Columbia, S. C, "Resources, Population, Institutions and Industries of 

 South Carolina;" from Natural History Society, Newport, R. I., " Pro- 

 ceedings for 1883-1884;" from U. S. Fish Commission, "Bulletin," Vol. 

 IV., Nos. 17 to 22; from U. S. Geological Survey, Williams' "Mineral 

 Resources of the United States;" from Chief Signal Officer, "Monthly 

 Weather Review," July, 1884; from Zoological Garden, Specimens of Lynx 

 Canadensis, Erithizon dorsatus, Ibis rubra, Grus Americanus, Equus Bur- 

 chellii, Cebits hyp oleums, Melf-s taxus (male and female); from John 

 Donahue, War Relics from the Battle-field of Seven Pines; from Bureau 

 of Education, "Circulars of Information," Nos. 4 and 5, for 1884; from 

 Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, "Transactions," No. 5; from E. F. Bliss, 

 Specimens of Minerals and Fossils; from Col. Jas. W. Abert, Ores from 

 Colorado and New Mexico; from Mrs. Eli Kinney, Specimens of Minerals 

 and Indian Relics — skull of Black Skimmer, etc.; from Robert Clarke, 

 Mummy from Egypt; from Miss E. W. James, Young Horned Owl; from 

 Wm. Nevins, Specimen of Banded Sandstone; from Chas. Dury, Hornet's 

 Nest and Lamprey Eel; from A. E. Heighway, M.D. , Conglomerate and 

 Coal from Pennsylvania, and pamphlet on Anthracite Coal-fields. 



