FEBia-AKY 10. 1905.] 



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by 11. M. Ami; " Upper Trias of the Lander 

 Basin, Wyoming,' by S. W. Williston ; 'The 

 "Red Beds" of Southwestern Colorado,' 

 by Whitman Cross and Ernest Howe ; 

 'Pleistocene History of Fishers Island, N. 

 Y.,' by ]\lyron L. Puller; 'Pleistocene of 

 the Chesapeake and Delaware Basins,' by 

 A. Bibbins; 'The Loess of the Lower Mis- 

 sissippi,' by G. Frederick Wright; and 

 'The Loess and Associated Interglacial 

 (Post-glacial) Deposits,' by B. Shimek. 



The following candidates were elected 

 to fellowshij) in the .society: Xevin M. Fen- 

 neman. University of Wisconsin ; Charles 

 N. Gould, University of Oklahoma; Mark 

 S. AV. Jert'ersou, Michigan State Normal 

 College ; Benjamin L. ]\Iiller, Bryn Mawr 

 College; Cleophas C. O'Harra, South Da- 

 kota School of Mines; Albert H. Purdue, 

 University of Arkansas; Solon Shedd, 

 Washington Agricultural College ; Bohumil 

 Shimek, Iowa State University; Gilbert 

 Van Ingen, Princeton University ; Ralph 

 Arnold, U. S. Geological Survey; John A. 

 Bownocker, Ohio State University; Regi- 

 nald W. Brock, Canadian Geological Sur- 

 vey Department ; Hiram D. McCaskey, 

 Chief of the Mining Bureau of Manila; 

 Henry ^Montgomery, Trinity University, 

 Toronto ; Arthur E. Seaman, Michigan Col- 

 lege of Mines. 



The officers of the society for the ensuing 

 year are : 



President — Raphael Pumpelly, of Dublin, N. H. 

 First Vice-President — Samuel Calvin, of Iowa 

 City, la. 



Second Vice-President — W. M. Davis, of Cam- 

 bridge, ]\Iass. 



Secretary — H. L. Fairchild, of Eoeliester, N. Y. 

 Treasurer — I. C. White, of Morgantown, W. Va. 

 Editor — J. Stanley-Biown, of New York City. 

 Librarian — H. P. Gushing, of Cleveland, O. 



Edmund Otis Hovey. 



SCIEyriFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 



The American Naturalist for November- 

 December contains the following articles : 

 ' The Embrj'ological Development of the 



Skeleton of the Head of Blatta,' William A. 

 Riley ; ' The Arboreal Ancestry of the Mam- 

 malia,' W. D. Matthew ; ' Localized Stages in 

 Common Roadside Plants,' Joseph A. Cush- 

 man ; ' An Arrangement of the Families and 

 Higher Groups of Birds,' R. W. Shufeldt; 

 ' Observations on Hearing and Smell in 

 Sijiders,' Annie H. Pritchett ; ' Amitosis in 

 the Embryo of Fasciolaria,' II. L. Osborn; 

 ' The Transplanting of Trout in the Streams 

 of the Sierra Nevada,' D. S. Jordan ; ' A New 

 Species of Diaptomus from Mexico,' A. S. 

 Pearse; ' Hyla andersoni and Rana virgatipes 

 at Lakehurst, New Jersey,' W. T. Davis. 

 There are also notes, reviews and lists of pub- 

 lications. 



Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. III., 

 No. 1, contains the following papers : ' Minute 

 (or Order) Book of the Virginia Court Held 

 for Ohio County, Virginia, etc.,' edited by 

 Boyd Crumrine; 'The Tropidoleptus Fauna 

 at Canandaigua Lake, New York, with the 

 Ontogeny of Twenty Species,' Percy E. Ray- 

 mond; 'Two (new) Species of Turtles from 

 the Judith River Beds of Montana,' 0. P. Hay 

 (Baena callosa and Aspideretes heecheri), and 

 ' A Preliminary List of the Hemiptera of 

 Western Pennsylvania,' P. Modestus Wirtner. 



The Zoological Society Bulletin, of New 

 York, for January contains accounts of the 

 newly erected ostrich house and small mam- 

 mal house, a note on ' Wild Animal Photog- 

 raphy,' a description of ' A Mosquito Object- 

 Lesson at the Aquarium ' and other interest- 

 ing and valuable information regarding the 

 work of this very active society. 



The American Geologist for December con- 

 tains as the leading article a paper by Charles 

 S. Prosser assisted by Edgar R. Cumings, en- 

 titled ' The Waverly Formations of Central 

 Ohio,' illustrated by three plates of half-tone 

 views of the formations described. The re- 

 gion considered, which is near Columbus, had 

 never been carefully described ; but on investi- 

 gation it affords the most satisfactory ex- 

 posures of the Waverly formations to be 

 found in central Ohio. Mr. N. Mistockles 

 continues his serial on ' The UntenablencoS 

 of the Nebular Theory ' and Professor Hobbs 



