1892.] 
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[Annual Meeting. 
of the geological agencies during the lapse of time since the glacial 
epoch, which took place in very recent times, has partially eroded 
it. Considering all the testimony for and against the formation 
of this pot-hole by the present streams and those of the glacial 
period, the weight of evidence is in favor of the latter, which de- 
cision adds one more Pot-hole, or Giant’s Kettle, or Indian Pot, to 
the list already found and described. 
Annual Meeting, May 4, 1892. 
President G. L. Goodale in the chair. Sixty- three persons 
present. 
The following reports were presented : — 
Report of the Curator, Alpheus Hyatt. 
Having had occasion during the year to draw up a brief account 
of the work done by the Society since 1870 it has been suggested 
to me that it would be of sufficient interest to the members to 
justify its incorporation in the annual report. 
In order to answer the question, “ What has been accomplished 
in the management of the Boston Society of Natural Plistory since 
1870,” one must first know what was the actual condition of the 
Museum and Society at that date, and also the conditions sur- 
rounding and necessarily governing the policy of the Society. 
I shall omit the history of the library and publications because 
they had been brought to such a stage of development by Mr. 
Samuel H. Scudder that they have continued practically un- 
changed during this period, and also the history of the meetings, 
the center of all the social and scientific functions of the Society 
as such, which were in full play before Mr. Scudder came into 
office, and have remained in effective working condition up to the 
present time. 
The Museum in 1870 had, however, been left far in the back- 
ground by the development of these two divisions, and it was 
essential that it should receive more attention and be brought up 
to a level with them. 
It was found by the Curator, after his election as Custodian, 
that the Society had no settled policy and no written plan of or- 
ganization, and his first work was to make a plan based upon 
work already done and following the lines of policy indicated bv 
the history and existing surroundings of the Society. This plan 
