54 PROCEEDINGS : BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
The meetings, attendance, and communications presented have 
been as follows : — 
May 6, 1896. Annual meeting. Forty persons present. 
Reports of the Curator, Secretary, Librarian, Treasurer, and 
Trustees. 
Prof. Charles S. Minot. On the principles of the construction 
of microtomes. 
May 20,1896. General meeting. Seventy-four persons present. 
Prof. E. S. Morse. Man as a Tertiary mammal. 
Dr. G. A. Dorsey. On the photograph and skeleton of a 
natiye Australian. 
November 4, 1896. General meeting. One hundred and seventeen 
persons present. 
Prof. George L. Goodale. The reclaiming of deserts. 
Mr. S. H. Scudder. List of exotic Orthoptera described by 
S. H. Scudder, 1868-1879, with a revision of their nomen¬ 
clature. (By title.) 
Mr. G. S. Miller, Jr. Notes on the mammals of Ontario. 
(By title.) 
Dr. Garry de N. Hough. A monograph of North American 
Muscidae. (By title.) 
Dr. Garry de N. Hough. A monograph of North American 
Sarcophagidae. (By title.) 
November 18, 1896. General meeting. Two hundred and eighty 
persons present. 
Prof. G. H. Barton. Observations on the inland ice and the 
glaciers proceeding from it in the Umanak District, Green¬ 
land. 
Prof. Alfred E. Burton. The topographical features of the 
Umanak District, Greenland. 
December 2, 1896. General meeting. Forty-eight persons present. 
Memorial of Thomas Tracy Bouve. 
Mr. Charles J. Sprague and Dr. James C. White. The early 
services of Mr. Bouve to the Society. 
Prof. Alpheus Hyatt. Mr. BouvCs work in the Society since 
1870. 
Prof. \Y . O. Crosby. Mr. Bouve’s work in geology and miner¬ 
al 02 ; v. 
Dr. A. P. Chadbourne. A study of the feather colors and the 
process of color changes in the mature feather. (By title.) 
