TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
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Officers of the Society, . . . . . . .2 
List of Members of the Society, t . . . .3 
Resolutions on the Death of Hon. Samuel Powel, . . .4 
The Geology of the Mouth of Narragansett Bay, by T. Nelson Dale, 5 
Alaska, by J. B. Parker, M. D., . . . . . .15 
An Aquarium ; Newport’s Need, by G. G. King, . . 35 
The Worship of Animals, by Rev. C. W. Wendte, . . .47 
Our Friends, the Spiders, by Rev. F. F. Emerson, . . .49 
A Cruise in the West Indies, by Captain E. O. Matthews, U. S. N., 60 
Some of the Bivalves of Newport, by S. Jacobs, . . .67 
The Evidences of Glaciation on Mount Kearsarge, N. H., by Bayard 
T. Putnam, ... . . . . . .74 
On Metamorphism in the Rhode Island Coal Basin, byT. Nelson Dale, 85 
Native Plants of the Island of Rhode Island, . . . .87 
Report of the Curator, . . . . . . .90 
Donations to Museum, . . . . . . .94 
Donations to the Library, . . . . . .96 
