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General Meeting. May 19, 1880. 
The President, Mr. S. H. Scudder, in the chair. Twenty-three 
persons present. 
Dr. C. S. Minot read a paper on the Structure of the Tongue 
in Reptiles and Birds. 1 
Dr. M. E. Wadsworth read a paper on the Age of the Copper- 
bearing Rocks of Lake Superior. See Bulletin of the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology, Geological Series, Yol. I, No. 1, and 
Proceedings of American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, 1880. 
General Meeting. October 6 , 1880. 
The President, Mr. S. H. Scudder, in the chair. Twenty- 
seven persons present. 
After the reading of the records of the last meeting, the Pres- 
ident announced the death, during the summer vacation, of Count 
L. F. de Pourtales, Dr. C. T. Jackson, Mr. L. S. Burbank, Mr. 
George D. Smith, and Prof. S. S. Haldeman. 
Ex-President Mr. T. T. Bouve said: 
As an early member of the Society, and consequently long 
associated with Dr. Jackson, and, moreover, having been for 
many years an intimate friend, I have felt it my duty to prepare 
for our records a brief account of his life and scientific work, 
and to express such views concerning him as truth seems to 
require from my pen. Already, in the sketch of the history of 
the Society for the half century which closed on the 28th of 
1 Published in the Anniversary Memoirs Bost. Soc. Nat. History. 
