THE 



AMERICAN NATURALIST. 



Vol. XXXVIII. 



PROCEEDINGS OI- THE AMI-.KICAN .socll 



OF zooeo(;lsts. 



First Annual Mektinc; oi- nii-. 1-:am I'.k.n 1^k.\N( 



The first annual meetin^^ of the Ivastern Hranch ol the 

 ican Society of Zoologists, the fourteenth annual meeting 

 Society since its establishment as the American Morpho 

 Society, was held in Biological Hall, University of Pennsy 

 Philadelphia, Pa., on Tuesday and \Vednesda>, Deccrnl 

 and 30, 1903. 



In accordance with the report of the conimitlce ap])oin 

 the preceding meeting to consider the niattei ot ilie \n\h\, 

 of the proceedings of the Society, ot an olfiual '>!■;. m, < 

 was voted to be the sense of the lui^tern l^iaiu h ihc . 

 can Society of Zoologists that the A);/c n,<i;/ XnfnnilL./ . 

 become the official organ of the Souety, and tin- ^luinniu 

 empowered to arrange for the publicalioii "t \r,it > \>\ 

 ing-s of the Eastern Branch in the Aiinru,i>i Xnfm.n'i..!. 



The committee in charge of the pre])araii(.n ot an in\ 

 to the International ZoiUogical Congre>> to hold itr. imx-l 

 1907 in America, presented its report, which \\a,>, adopted 

 the result of this action, and Mmilar action bv the (. 



