18 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
May 18, 1898. General meeting. Thirty-two persons present. 
Dr. T. A. Jaggar, Jr. The Absaroka range of the Rocky 
Mountains. 
November 2,1898. General meeting. Thirty-seven persons present. 
Prof. Alpheus Hyatt. A rare whale from the Massachusetts 
coast. 
Dr. R. T. Jackson. Localized stages in growth in plants and 
animals. 
Dr. G. N. Calkins. Some hydroids from Puget Sound. (By 
title.) 
Mr. Reginald IJeber Howe, Jr. North American wood frogs. 
(By title.) 
November 16,1898. General meeting. Eighty-five persons present. 
Prof. W. Z. Ripley. Racial characteristics of the Jews — a 
study in physical anthropology. 
December 7, 1898. General meeting. Forty-five persons present. 
Dr. G. Id. Parker. On the coronary circulation in some fishes. 
Prof. M. A. Willcox. On the occipital region of the head in 
the European trout. 
Prof. J. S. Kingsley. Ear-bones of mammals. 
Prof. C. S. Minot. Prof. O. van der Stricht’s demonstration 
of the human ovum. 
Prof. C. S. Minot. Some classical embryological monographs. 
December 21, 1898. General meeting. Forty-three persons pres¬ 
ent. 
Prof. Alpheus Hyatt. Evolution and migrations of the land 
shells of the Hawaiian Islands. 
January 4, 1899. General meeting. Thirty-six persons present. 
Mr. J. B. Woodworth. The geology and geography of the 
Richmond area in Virginia. 
January 18, 1899. General meeting. Forty-four persons present. 
Dr. Frank Russell. An account of the Apache festival of San 
Antonio. 
February 1 , 1899. General meeting. Seventy-six persons present. 
Dr. R. A. Daly. A geological tour in Russia, Finland, the 
Volga, the Caucasus, and the Crimea. 
February 15, 1899. General meeting. Thirty-two persons present. 
Mr. Myron L. Fuller. Rapidity of sand-plain growth. 
Prof. W. O. Crosby. Geology of the main dam and tunnel of 
the Metropolitan water works, near Clinton, Mass. 
