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Meetings. 
Fourteen regular meetings of the Society have been held during 
the year. The number of persons present at any one meeting has 
varied from 26 to 118, the average attendance being about 51, as 
against 55 for last year. 
The total attendance for the vear is 707. Fifteen formal com- 
munications have been made during the year by as many persons, of 
whom eleven had not previously spoken before the Society. Eight 
papers have been presented by title. 
The meetings, attendance, and communications have been as 
follows: — 
3Iay 4, 1904. Annual meeting. Twenty-eight persons present. 
Reports of the Curator, Curator of the Teachers’ school of 
science, Secretary, Librarian, Treasurer, Trustees. 
Mr. C. W. Johnson. Brief remarks on the exhibition of the 
Mollusca in the Societv’s collection. 
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Mr. F. N. Balch. The Nudibranch Mollusca of New England, 
May 18, 1904. General meeting. Thirty persons present. 
Mr. Glover M. Allen. The Newfoundland whale fishery. 
Prof. George E. Stone. The influence of current electricity on 
plants. (By title.) 
November 2,1904. General meeting. Forty-eight j)ersons present. 
Prof. William M. Davis. Physiographic notes in Colorado, 
Utah, and Mexico, 1904. 
Prof. Edward C. Jeffrey. The comparative anatomy and phy- 
logeny of the Coniferales.— Part 2. The Abietineae. (By 
title.) 
Dr. Millett T. Thompson. The morphology and metamorpho¬ 
sis of the alimentary tract of the mosquito. (By title.) 
Miss Ellen Tucker Emerson, 2d. The general anatomy of 
Typhlomolge rathbuni. (By title.) 
November 16, 1904. General meeting. Forty-one persons pres¬ 
ent. 
Dr. Edmund D. Spear. How birds fly. 
December 7, 1904. General meeting. Thirty persons present. 
Dr. Douglas W. Johnson. A problem in river capture. 
Mr. J. H. Faull. Development of ascus and spore formation in 
Ascomycetes. (By title.) 
