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Meetings. 
The total attendance at the fourteen regular meetings held during 
the year, is 494, an average of about 35 to a meeting. The largest 
attendance at any one meeting was 68 and the smallest 10. 
Sixteen formal communications have been made durins; the vear 
by as many persons, of whom five had not previously spoken before 
the Society. Eleven papers have been presented by title. 
The meetings, attendance, and communications have been as fol¬ 
lows : — 
May 1, 1901. Annual meeting. Thirty-three persons present. 
Reports of the Curator, Secretary, Librarian, Treasurer, 
Trustees, and Walker Prize Committee. 
Dr. Charles S. Minot. Cytomorphosis ; a study of cell change 
in relation to age, growth, disease, death, and sex. 
Mr. James B. Dandeno. An investigation into the effects of 
water and aqueous solutions of some of the common inorganic 
substances on foliage leaves. (By title.) 
Dr. Amadeus W. Grabau. The phylogeny of the Gastropoda. 
The Fusidae and their allies. (By title.) 
Mr. Samuel H. Scudder. Alphabetical index to North Ameri¬ 
can Orthoptera described in the eighteenth and nineteenth 
centuries. (By title.) 
May 15, 1901. General meeting. Seventeen persons present. 
Dr. A. W. Grabau. Parallelism and acceleration in development 
as illustrated in the shells of Gastropoda. 
Dr. Herbert P. Johnson. The Polychaeta of the Puget Sound 
region. (By title.) 
Mr. Alfred W. G. Wilson. The Medford Dike area. (By 
title.) 
Movember 6, 1901. General meeting. Forty-six persons present. 
Prof. William M. Davis. River terraces in New England. 
Dr. James G. Needham.' A genealogic study of dragonfly 
wing venation. (By title.) 
Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. On the osteology and systematic position 
of the Pygopodes. (By title.) 
JSFovember 20, 1901. General meeting. Thirteen persons present. 
Prof. Edward S. Morse. Observations on living Brachiopoda. 
