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Report of the Nominating Committee. 
Prof. William Libbey. The Hawaiian Islands. 
Mr. Chari es F. Batchelcler. Notes on the distribution of 
several mammals in New England and northern New York. 
(By title.) 
April 15, 1896. General meeting. One hundred and eight persons 
present. 
Mr. M. L. Fuller. A new occurrence of Carboniferous fossils 
in the Narragansett Basin. 
Prof. A. Hyatt. The evidence of the descent of man from 
the ape. 
Prof. Thomas Dwight. Remarks on Professor Hyatt’s paper. 
Prof. C. S. Minot. Remarks on Professor Hyatt’s paper. 
Mr. Edwin T. Brewster. A measure of variability and the 
relation of individual variations to specific differences. (By 
title.) 
Publications. 
Two memoirs (1) on the reserve cellulose of the seeds of Liliaceae 
and of some related orders by Miss Grace E. Cooley, 28 pp. and 6 
plates, and (2) Notes on the dissection and brain of the chimpanzee 
“ Gumbo ” by Dr. Thomas Dwight, 22 pp. and 4 jilates, have been 
issued. These are number one and number two of volume five. The 
final part, four, of volume 26 of the Proceedings, 176 pp., 1 plate, has 
also been issued. 
Commencing with volume 27 of the Proceedings, the Library and 
Publishing Committee have decided to issue each paper separately. 
This method is more in accordance with other scientific institutions 
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and places our publications promptly and frequently in the hands of 
those interested; it is also far more satisfactory than the custom of 
gathering the signatures into parts, with infrequent and irregular 
distribution. 
The first two numbers of volume 27, (1) Notes on the synonymy 
of the North American mink, with description of a new subspecies by 
Outram Bangs, 6 pp., 2 plates, and (2) The anatomy and histology of 
Caudina arenata Gould by J. II. Gerould, 68 pp. 8 plates, have been 
printed. Dr. Gerould’s paper is published with the generous 
co-operation of Mr. Agassiz. We are also indebted to Mr. Outram 
Bangs foi* assistance. The progress of Professor Crosby’s field work 
for the third part of his geology of the Boston Basin is noted in 
Professor Hyatt’s report. 
