4 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Alexander Agassiz has been added to the list of Patrons. The present 
membership consists of 12 Honorary, 121 Corresponding, and 387 
Corporate Members, a total membership of 520. There are 15 
Patrons. 
Fourteen regular meetings of the Society have been held during the 
year. The number of persons present has varied from 13 to 61, with a 
total attendance of 539 and an average of about 38. Seventeen formal 
communications have been made by as many persons, and seven 
papers have been presented by title. 
During the year eight numbers of the Proceedings have been issued: 
Development of ascus and spore formation in Ascomycetes, by J. 
Horace Faull. Vol. 32, no. 4, 37 pages, 5 plates. 
Proceedings of the annual meeting, May 3, 1905. Vol. 32, no. 5, 
29 pages. 
Alimentary canal of the mosquito, by M. T. Thompson. Vol. 32, 
no. 6, 58 pages, 6 plates. 
Birds of the southern Lesser Antilles, by Austin H. Clark. Vol. 
32, no. 7, 110 pages. 
Anatomy of Boophilus annulatus Say, by S. R. Williams. Vol. 3, 
no. 8, 22 pages, 5 plates, 3 figures. 
Circulatory and respiratory systems of Desmognathus fusca, by 
Anne Barrows Seelye. Vol. 32, no. 9, 23 pages, 4 plates, 4 figures. 
Marine Ostracoda of Vineyard Sound and adjacent waters, by 
Joseph A. Cushman. Vol. 32, no. 10, 27 pages, 12 plates. 
Squamosal bone in tetrapodous Vertebrata, by F. W. Thyng. Vol. 
32, no. 11, 39 pages, 4 plates, 19 figures. 
Under Mr. Samuel Henshaw’s editorship have appeared two, more 
numbers of VoL 7 of the Occasional Papers devoted to lists of New 
England animals: No. 5, List of the Crustacea, by Mary J. Rathbun, 
117 pages; No. 6, List of the Odonata, by P. P. Calvert, 43 pages. 
The additions to the library during the year are as follows: — 
8 vo. 
4to. 
Folio. 
Total. 
Volumes 
419 
109 
20 
548 
Parts of volumes 
2035 
588 
18 
2641 
Pamphlets 
1089 
55 
28 
1172 
Maps and photos 
696 
696 
Total 
3543 
752 
762 
5057 
