IV 
CONTENTS. 
Mr. Samuel H. Scudder. Report of the Board of Directors of the Natural His- 
tory Gardens and Aquaria 284 
Dr. J. Walter Fewkes. Secretary’s Report 297 
Mr. C. W. Scudder. Treasurer’s Report 302 
Election of Officers 303 
General Meeting , May 20, 1891 304 
Election of Members 304 
(General Meeting, November 4, 1891 305 
Mr. Warren Upham. Recent fossils of the harbor and Back Bay, Boston 305 
Election of Members 316 
(General Meeting, November 18, 1891 317 
Dr. George Baur. The Galapagos Islands 317 
Prof. W. M. Davis. The Catskill delta in the post-glacial Hudson estuary (with 
figures) 318 
General Meeting, December 2, 1891 335 
Prof. A. Hyatt. Remarks on the Pinnidae 335 
General Meeting, December 16, 1891 347 
Dr. James C. White. Commemorative sketch of Dr. D. H. Storer 347 
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Letter in memory of Dr. Storer 353 
Mr. Samuel Garman. Dr. Storer’s work on the fishes 354 
Mr. Samuel H. Scudder. The services of Edward Burgess to natural science.. 358 
Prof. G. L. Goodale, Prof. N. S. Shaler, Prof. C. S. Minot. In commemora- 
tion of Samuel Dexter 364 
General Meeting , January 6, 1892 369 
Election of Members 370 
General Meeting, January 20, 1892 370 
Mr. Samuel H. Scudder. The tertiary Rhynchophora of North America 370 
General Meeting, February 3,1892 386 
General Meeting, February 17, 1892 386 
Election of Members 387 
General Meeting , March 2, 1892. 387 
Dr. W. G. Farlow. Notes on collections of cryptogams from the higher moun- 
tains of New England 387 
Prof. G. F. Wright. Glacial phenomena of northern France and England 391 
General Meeting, March 16, 1892 392 
General Meeting, April 6, 1892 392 
Mr. Aug. F. Foerste. The drainage of the Bernese Jura (with Plates X, XI) . . 392 
Prof. W. M. Davis. Note on the drainage of the Pennsylvania Appalachians. . . 418 
General Meeting, April 20, 1892 421 
Election of M embers 421 
Mr. E. Adams Hartwell. The Pearl Hill pot-hole (with figure) 421 
Annual Meeting, May 4, 1892 425 
Prof. A. Hyatt. Report of the Curator 425 
Mr. S. H. Scudder. Report of the Board of Directors of the Natui-al History 
Gardens and Aquaria (with Plate XII) 445 
Mr. Samuel Henshaw. Secretar}’’s Report 448 
Mr. Edward T. BouvE. Treasurer’s Report 452 
Election of Officers 453 
General Meeting , May 18, 1892 454 
Baron Gerard De Geer. On Pleistocene changes of level in eastern North 
America (with Plate XIII) 454 
Prof. William M. Davis. The subglacial origin of certain eskers 477 
Prof. W. O. Crosby. Geology of Hingham, Mass, (with Plates XIV-XVI) 499 
