34 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
part to the favorable weather on the evenings of the meetings. 
The total attendance for the year is 700 persons, an increase of 206 
over last year’s total. 
Twenty-one formal communications have been made during the 
year by twenty persons, of whom nine had not previously spoken 
before the Society. Two papers have been presented by title. 
The meetings, attendance, and communications have been as 
follows: — 
May 7, 1902. Annual meeting. Forty persons present. 
Reports of the Museum Committee, Secretary, Librarian, 
Treasurer, Trustees, and Walker Prize Committee. 
Mr. Frederick G. Clapp. The geological history of the 
Charles river. 
May 21, 1902. General meeting. Thirty-five persons present. 
Dr. J. S. Kingsley. The Caecilians. 
Mr. M. L. Fernald. Some aspects of the Aroostook and its 
vegetation. 
November 5, 1902. General meeting. Forty-one persons present. 
Dr. T. A. Jaggar, Jr. The possibility of volcano-proof con¬ 
struction. 
Dr. W. E. Castle. Mendel’s principles of heredity. 
Dr. M. T. Thompson. A rare Thalassinid and its larva. 
(By title.) 
November 19, 1902. General meeting. Ninety-eight persons 
present. 
Mr. William Lyman Underwood. Bird photography. 
December 3, 1902. General meeting. Forty-five persons present. 
Mr. James H. Emerton. Methods of examining cobwebs. 
Mr. Hollis Webster. Remarks on certain Boleti, with a note 
on Pliallogaster. 
December 17, 1902. General meeting. Seventy persons present. 
Prof. William M. Davis. A western geological excursion in 
the summer of 1902. 
January 7, 1903. General meeting. Thirty-six persons present. 
Mr. Joseph A. Cushman. Localized stages in certain New 
England and other plants. 
January 21, 1903. General meeting. Twenty-eight persons 
present. 
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Dr. F. T. Lewis. The embryonic development of the large 
veins. 
