292 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Dr. R. T. Jackson. Some principles of invertebrate palae¬ 
ontology. 
May 19, 1897. General meeting. Three hundred and fifty-two 
persons present. 
Mr. J. E. Lough. The phenomena of telepathy. 
Mr. W. E. Davis. Dodgerfield. 
Miss Margaret Lewis. Description of Clymene producta sp. 
nov. (By title.) 
Prof. W. O. Crosby. Pleistocene history of the Nashua valley. 
(By title.) 
Dr. T. A. Jaggar, Jr. A microsclerometer for determining 
the hardness of mineral thin sections. (By title.) 
November 8,1897. General meeting. Seventy-five persons present. 
Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Mr. Saville-Kent’s illustrations of 
Australian Coral reefs. 
Dr. Hubert L. Clark. Synapta vivipara: a contribution to the 
morphology of echinoderms. (By title.) 
November 17, 1897. General meeting. Seventy-one persons 
present. 
Dr. B. L. Robinson. Notes on the fiora of some of the islands 
of the Pacific. 
Prof. A. E. Verrill. The causes that determine the fiora and 
fauna of the smaller islands off our coast. 
December 1, 1897. General meeting. Thirty-five persons present. 
Prof. N. S. Shaler. Aeolian deposits in relation to river 
valleys. 
Mr. A. W. Grabau. Some rare and interesting fossils from the 
upper Devonian of western New York, showing parallelism 
with European species. 
Mr. Outram Bangs. The land mammals of peninsular Elorida 
and the coast region of Georgia. (By title.) 
December 15, 1897. General meeting. One hundred and five 
persons present. 
Prof. W. M. Davis. A series of lantern slides showing physio¬ 
graphic features, taken during the summer of 1897 on excur¬ 
sions from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 
January 5, 1898. General meeting. Forty-two persons present. 
Mr: Frank Russell. Some notes upon the Indians of the 
Barren Ground of Canada. 
January 19, 1898. General meeting. Thirty persons present. 
