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Meetings. 
The total attendance, 1,339, at the regular fourteen meetings held 
during the year gives an average of 95 plus to a meeting; the total 
last year was 1,182, the average 84 plus. 
The largest attendance recorded for any one meeting was 400, the 
smallest 13 ; the largest last year was 284, the smallest 30. 
Twenty-seven communications have been made by twenty-three 
persons. 
Eleven papers have been presented by title. 
The meetings, attendance, and communications presented have 
been as follows : — 
May 1, 1895. Annual meeting. Forty-four persons present. 
Reports of the Curator, Secretary, Librarian, Treasurer, and 
Trustees. 
Mr. J. L. Tilton. On the geology of the southwestern part of 
the Boston Basin. 
May 15, 1895. General meeting. Thirty persons present. 
Dr. Thomas Dwight. Notes on the dissection of a chimpanzee 
with especial reference to the brain. 
Prof. N. S. Shaler. The conditions of escape of gases from 
the interior of the earth. 
Mr. Outram Bangs. Notes on North American mammals, 
(By title.) 
Mr. J. Crawford. Cerro Viejo and its volcanic cones. (By 
title.) 
November 6, 1895. General meeting. One hundred and sixteen 
persons present. 
Prof. George L. Goodale. Some peculiarities of Australasian 
vegetation. 
Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. The beach mouse of Muskeget Island. 
(By title.) 
Mr. Harrison G. Dyar. On the larvae of the higher Noctuina 
(Agrotidae Grote). (By title.) 
Prof. Jules Marcou. The Jura of Texas. (By title.) 
November 20, 1895. General meeting. Eighty-four persons present. 
Dr. J. Walter Fewkes. Some newly discovered clift* ruins in 
Arizona. 
December 4, 1895. General meeting. Eighty-one persons present. 
Mr. L. S. Griswold. The San Francisco Mountains and the 
Grand Canyon. 
