PROCEEDINGS 
BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
TAKEN FROM THE SOCIETY'S RECORDS. 
General Meeting, Nov^ember 2, 189:^. 
President W. FI. Niles in the cliair. Eighty-four persons 
present. 
The President announced that the Society had lately received 
a gift of $5,000 from Miss B. L. Randall, executrix of the late 
John Witt Randall, and that the income of the fund established 
tlierefrom would be devoted to the increase of the library. 
It was announced that the following Corporate Members had 
been elected by the Council: Messrs. A W. Grabau, L. S. 
Griswold, John Lowell, W. H. Patton, M. A. Reed, C. C. 
Rounds, H, F. Sears, and Miss Frances Zimgiebel. 
The following papers were read by title ; "Physical geography 
of Texas," by R. S. Tarr ; "Notes on the transformation of the 
higher Hyiuenoptera," by A. S. Packard. 
Prof. George L. Goodale spoke of certain as[)ects of the vege- 
tation of New Zealand. 
General Meeting, November 16, 1892, 
President W. H. Niles in the chair. Ninety-live persons 
present. 
PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. VOL. XXVI. 1 DEC. 1892. 
