TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
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Officers and Council of the Society, ... 2 
Our Birds of Rhode Island, .... 3 
The Water Birds of Newport, R. I., . . . 16 
On Certain Phenomena Produced by the Detonation of 
Gun-Cotton, . . . . .18 
Native Plants of the Island of Rhode Island, . . 24 
List of Communications laid before the Society, 18S7-1S8S, 25 
Rectification of an omission, .... 27 
