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LIST OF COMMUNICATIONS LAID BEFORE THE SOCIETY, 
1887-1888. 
THOSE MARKED * ARE NOW PUBLISHED. 
PAG*. 
1887. 
June 23. Mr. J. M. KL. Southwick, “ Notes on Food Fishes.” 
Mr. A. O’D. Taylor on the “ Mygale Hentzii ” and the 
“ Pompilus formosus.” 
July 21. *Mr. James M. Southwick on “ Our Rhode Island Birds,” 3 
Aug. 25. Mr. L. D. Davis on “The Trees of Newport.” 
Oct. 20. *Prof. Charles E. Munroe, on “ Certain Phenomena at¬ 
tendant on the Explosion of Gun Cotton,” . . 18 
Dec. 16. Mr. A. O’D. Taylor on “ The Hibernation of Animals.” 
“ *Mr. Charles H. Lawton, “ Observations on the Water- 
birds of Newport, R. I.” 16 
1888. 
Jan’y 7 to 3d March. A series of nine Saturday evening educational 
lectures on “ Zoology,” by Mr. T. Nelson Dale. 
April 19. Mr. T. N. Dale on the “Orchids of Greylock Mountain. 
Berkshire County, Mass.” 
“ Mr. John Swan, Jr. on a “ Series of the Local Flora of 
Rhode Island.” 
“ Mr. Henry L. Smythe on the “ Occurrence and Causes of 
Subterranean Mountain Streams on Monadnock 
Mountain, New Hampshire.” 
“ Mr. A. O’D. Taylor on the “ Ancestry of the Dog and 
on its varieties mentioned in Shakespere.” 
“ Mr. Amon Parmenter on the “ Occurrence of the Golden 
Carp on Aquidneck Island.” 
♦Native Plants of the Island of Rhode Island, List of 
Flora, Part IV. 
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