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Dr. G. H. Parker. A double-mouthed Metridium. 
Mr. G. M. Winslow. An abnormal Amblystoma. 
Prof. C. S. Minot. The morphology of th6 kidney. 
February 2, 1898. General meeting. Sixty-five persons present. 
Mr. William C. Bates. The scenery and folk lore of Jamaica. 
Mr. J. W. Folsom. Collembola from Japan. (By title.) 
February 16, 1898. General meeting. Twenty-four persons present. 
Mr. John Murdoch. The animals known to the Eskimo of 
northwestern Alaska. 
March 2, 1898. General meeting. Seventy-one persons present. 
Mr. Hollis Webster. Some common mushrooms, edible and. 
poisonous. 
Mr. M. L. Fuller. Notes on a boulder train in eastern Massa¬ 
chusetts. (By title.) 
March 16, 1898. General meeting. One hundred and fifty-two 
persons present. 
Prof. William Libbey. Cuba. 
Mr. J. Edmund Woodman. Geological history of the gold 
slates of Nova Scotia with the structure of three typical 
regions. (By title.) 
April 6, 1898. General meeting. Fifty-seven persons present. 
Report of the Nominating Committee. 
Dr. C. B. Davenport. A precise criterion of species: its appli¬ 
cability to systematic zoology. 
Mr. J. W. Blankinship. A precise criterion of species: its 
applicability to systematic botany. 
Mr. A. W. Grabau. Moniloporidae: a new family of Palaeo¬ 
zoic corals, with descriptions of genera and species. (By 
title.) 
April 20, 1898. General meeting. Sixty persons present. 
Mr. Henry L. Clapp. Some native ferns of New England. 
Publications. 
There have been issued during the year the following pub¬ 
lications : — 
Synapta vivipara: a contribution to the morphology of echino- 
derms, by Hubert Lyman Clark. Memoirs, vol. 5, no. 3, 36 pp., 
5 plates. 
