Anthrax of Fruit Trees: or the so-called Fire Blight of Pear, and Twig Blight

of Apple Trees. By T. J. BURRILL

Field Work by Amateurs. By ELLEN HARDIN WALWORTH
Titles of Papers read in the Section but not printed

PERMANENT SUBSECTION OF ENTOMOLOGY.

Address of SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, President of the Entomological Club of

the Association

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583

597

603

609

Further notes on the Pollination of Yucca and on Pronuba and Prodoxus.
By C. V. RILEY. Illustrated

617

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Additional notes on the Army Worm (Leucania unipuncta). Abstract. By

C. V. RILEY

640

Some recent Practical Results of the Cotton Worm Inquiry by the U. S.
Entomological Commission. By C. V. RILEY

642

MACLOSKIE. Illustrated

The hitherto unknown Life-habits of two genera of Bee-flies (Bombyliidæ).
Abstract. By C. V. RILEY

On Lightning Bugs. By JOHN L. LECONTE

The Endocranium and Maxillary Suspensorium of the Bee.

Sub-elytral Air-passages in Coleoptera. By CARL F. GISSLER. Illustrated
Two new uses of Important Insecticides. By A. J. COOK

Titles of Papers read in the Subsection but not printed

The Dacotah Tribes: their beliefs, and our duty to them outlined. By

HENRY B. CARRINGTON

689

The Theory of Primitive Democracy in the Alps. By DENMAN W. ROSS

The Antiquity of Man in Eastern America, geologically considered. Abstract.

By HENRY CARVILL LEWIS

693

706

Ancient Mounds of Illinois. By WILLIAM MCADAMS

710

Ancient Agricultural Implements of Stone. By WILLIAM MCADAMS.

A Stone Implement from a Well in Illinois. By WILLIAM MCADAMS

Prehistoric Altars of Whitesides County, Illinois. By W. C. HOLBROOK

Antiquities in the Town of New Haven, Vermont. By J. M. CURRIER

On the Alabaster Quarries, Flint Mines, and other Antiquities of Wyandot

Cave. By HORACE C. HOVEY

718

720

722

724

725

Some Observations on Geometric Beauty, considered as consisting of

Angular rather than in Linear Ratio. Abstract. By S. EDWARD

WARREN

731

Notes on an American Example of a "St Giles Staircase." By S. EDWARD

WARREN

CHAIRMAN OF PERMANENT SUBSECTION OF CHEMISTRY.

JOHN M. ORDWAY, of Boston, Mass.

CHAIRMAN OF PERMANENT SUBSECTION OF MICROSCOPY.

S. A. LATTIMORE, of Rochester, N. Y.

CHAIRMAN OF PERMANENT SUBSECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY.

J. W. POWELL, of Washington, D. C.

CHAIRMAN OF SUBSECTION OF ENTOMOLOGY.

JOHN G. MORRIS, of Baltimore, Md.

PERMANENT SECRETARY.

F. W. PUTNAM, of Cambridge, Mass.

GENERAL SECRETARY.

JOHN K. REES, of St. Louis, Mo.

SECRETARY OF SECTION A.

HENRY B. NASON, of Troy, N. Y.

SECRETARY OF SECTION B.

C. V. RILEY, of St. Louis, Mo.

SECRETARY OF PERMANENT SUBSECTION OF CHEMISTRY.

CHARLES E. MUNROE, of Annapolis, Md.

SECRETARY OF PERMANENT SUBSECTION OF MICROSCOPY.

A. B. HERVEY, of Taunton, Mass.

SECRETARY OF PERMANENT SUBSECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY.

J. G. HENDERSON, of Winchester, Ill.

SECRETARY OF SUBSECTION OF ENTOMOLOGY.

B. PICKMAN MANN, of Cambridge, Mass.

TREASURER.

WILLIAM S. VAUX, of Philadelphia, Pa.

STANDING COMMITTEE.

Past Presidents.-BENJAMIN PEIRCE, of Cambridge; JAMES D. Dana, of
New Haven; JAMES HALL, of Albany; STEPHEN ALEXANDER, of Prince-
ton; ISAAC LEA, of Philadelphia; F. A. P. BARNARD, of New York; J. S.
NEWBERRY, of New York; B. A. GOULD, of Boston; T. STERRY HUNT, of
Montreal; ASA GRAY, of Cambridge; J. LAWRENCE SMITH, of Louisville;
JOSEPH LOVERING, of Cambridge; JOHN L. LECONTE, of Philadelphia;
J. E. HILGARD, of Washington; WILLIAM B. ROGERS, of Boston; SIMON
NEWCOMB, of Washington; O. C. MARSH, of New Haven.

The President, Vice Presidents, Permanent and General Secretaries, the
Secretaries of Sections A and B, and Treasurer of the Meeting.

Officers of the Preceding Meeting.-GEORGE F. BARKER, of Philadelphia;
S. P. LANGLEY, of Allegheny; J. W. POWELL, of Washington; H. CAR-
RINGTON BOLTON, of Hartford; W. H. DALL, of Washington.

From the Association at large. -N. T. LUPTON, of Nashville; F. W.
CLARKE, of Cincinnati; E. T. Cox, of Oakland; WILLIAM HARKNESS, of
Washington; O. T. Mason, of Washington; S. A. LATTIMORE, of Roch-

ester.

SECTIONAL COMMITTEE OF SECTION A.

ASAPH HALL, of Washington; H. B. NASON, of Troy; JOHN M. Ord-
WAY, of Boston; CHARLES E. MUNROE, of Annapolis; S. A. LATTIMORE,
of Rochester; A. B. HERVEY, of Taunton; A. W. WRIGHT, of New Haven;
ALFRED M. MAYER, of Hoboken; JOHN TROWBRIDGE, of Cambridge.

SECTIONAL COMMITTEE OF SECTION B.

ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, of Cambridge; C. V. RILEY, of Washington; J.
W. POWELL, of Washington; J. G. HENDERSON, of Winchester; E. D.
COPE, of Philadelphia; G. L. GOODALE, of Cambridge; BURT G. WILDER,
of Ithaca; J. G. MORRIS, of Baltimore; B. PICKMAN MANN, of Cambridge.

NOMINATING COMMITTEE OF SECTION A.

HENRY B. NASON, of Troy; F. H. SMITH, of Charlottesville; J. M. VAN
VLECK, of Middletown; THOMAS HILL, of Portland.

NOMINATING COMMITTEE OF SECTION B.

C. S. MINOT, of Boston; A. J. Cook, of Lansing; THOMAS MEEHAN, of
Philadelphia; F. G. FARLOW, of Cambridge.

OF THE

BOSTON MEETING.

Chairman.

PROF. WILLIAM B. ROGERS.

Secretaries.

SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, Harvard College Library, Cambridge.
EDWARD BURGESS, Boston Society of Natural History.

Treasurer.

CHARLES W. SCUDDER, 69 Kilby Street, Boston.

Committee at Large:-Hon. Chas. Francis Adams; Dr. H. J. Bigelow; T. T. Bouvé; Dr. H. I. Bowditch; J. I. Bowditch; Hon. Wm. Claflin; Hon. S. C. Cobb; Hon. John Cummings; President C. W. Eliot; Dr. Samuel Eliot; George B. Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; J. M. Forbes; Hon. Wm. Gaston; Prof. Asa Gray; Hon. Horace Gray; William Gray; Hon. E. R. Hoar; Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes; H. P. Kidder; A. A. Lawrence; Hon. F. W. Lincoln; J. L. Little; Hon. John D. Long; Prof. Henry W. Longfellow; Prof. Joseph Lovering; Hon. John A. Lowell; Col. Theodore Lyman; Hon. E. R. Mudge; Hon. Otis Norcross; Francis Parkman; Prof. Benjamin Peirce; Hon. H. L. Pierce; Hon. F. O. Prince; Hon. Josiah Quincy; Hon. Alexander H. Rice; Hon. Thomas Talbot; Nathaniel Thayer; Hon. E. S. Tobey; Hon. J. M. Wightman; Hon. Marshall P. Wilder; Hon. Robert C. Winthrop; J. Huntington Wolcott.

Reception Committee :— Dr. S. L. Abbott; J. S. Amory; Nathan Appleton, Secretary; T. G. Appleton; W. S. Appleton; E. Austin; G. W. Bond: Hon. A. W. Beard; Hon. Martin Brimmer; Rev. Phillips Brooks; P. C. Brooks; J. Elliot Cabot; Dr. Samuel Cabot; Pres. E. H. Capen; Hon. Mellen Chamberlain; George B. Chase; Rev. James Freeman Clarke; Dr. B. E. Cotting; Charles Deane; R. H. Eddy; Henry Edwards; Dr. Calvin Ellis; Rev. George E. Ellis; J. T. Fields; Charles L. Flint; Hon. Dwight Foster; H. W. Fuller; Thomas Gaffield; W. W. Greenough; Rev. E. E. Hale; Hon. Alpheus Hardy; Franklin Haven; Capt. M. Haxtun, U. S. N.; George Higginson; Dr. R. M. Hodges; Dr. R. W. Hooper; H. H. Hunnewell; M. P. Kennard; Col T. T. S. Laidley, U. S. A.; Abbott Lawrence; Col. Henry Lee; Dr. G. H. Lodge; Gen. Charles G. Loring; Augustus Lowell; Rev. J. M. Manning; J. J. May; Thomas Motley; Prof. J. K. Paine; O. W. Peabody: C. C. Perkins; J. C. Phillips; W. D. Pickman; Mayor F. O. Prince, Chairman; Commodore G. M. Ransom, U. S. N.; G. C. Richardson; H. B. Rogers; John C. Ropes; B. S. Rotch; Hon. Leverett Saltonstall; Prof. C. S. Sargent; Barthold Schlesinger; G. O. Shattuck; Dr. Benjamin S. Shaw; Quincy A. Shaw; Dr. D. D. Slade; S. B. Stebbins; Dr. D. H. Storer; G. W. Wales; Dr. C. E. Ware; S. D. Warren Pres. W. F. Ware; Rev. R. C. Waterston; E. P. Whipple; Dr. J. C. White; Dr. H. W. Williams; Roger Wolcott; Dr. E. S. Wood; Mrs. Louis Agassiz; Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney; Miss Lucretia Crocker; Miss Cora Clarke; Mrs. James T. Fields; Miss Ellen Frothingham: Miss Susan Hale; Mrs. Augustus Hemenwav; Mrs. S. T. Hooper; Mrs. Julia Ward Howe; Mrs. Phebe M. Kendall; Mrs. Jonathan A. Lane; Mrs. J. E. Lodge; Miss Abby W. May; Mrs. R. H. Richards; C. C. Smith; Miss Ticknor; Mrs. S. D. Warren; Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells.

Committee on Finance:- Dr. Robert Amory; Hon. John Cummings, Chairman; William Endicott: Augustus Flagg; W. O. Grover; Franklin Haven; George Higginson; Hamilton A. Hill; E. W. Hooper; H. P. Kid ler; J. L. Little; Augustus Lowell; Hon. E. R. Mudge; Gen. Francis (ix)

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A. Osborn; C. J. Paine; F. E. Parker; F. H. Peabody; Gen. C. L. Peirson; Gen. A. P. Rockwell; M. D. Ross; Charles James Sprague; Nathaniel Thayer: Samuel Wells, Secretary.

Committee on Railroads :-C. F. Adams, Jr.; Edward Atkinson; Dr. J. R. Chadwick, Secretary; C F. Choate; Hon. John Cummings; Dr. C. F. Folsom; C. W. Folsom; William T. Hart; Franklin Haven; Dr. B. Joy Jeffries; B. P. Mann; Gen. Francis A. Osborn; E. B. Phillips; Gen. A. P. Rockwell, Chairman; J. B. Stearns; James P. Tolman.

Committee on Hotels and Lodgings:-Dr. W. S. Bigelow; E. T. Bouvé, Secretary; F. C. Bowditch; N. J. Bradlee; Edw. Burgess; Dr. John Dixwell; Prof. A. E. Dolbear; Dr. W. G. Farlow; R. C. Greenleaf; Curtis Guild; G. W. Hammond; J. B. Henck, Jr.; Dr. David Hunt; Prof. C. L. Jackson; Prof. G. F. H. Markoe; Prof. John P. Marshall; Dr. C. S. Minot; Gen. Francis A. Osborn, Chairman; Prof. G. A. Osborne; A. S. Porter; H. A. Purdie; Dr. Thomas M. Rotch: S. P. Ruggles; S. P. Sharples; Dr. F. C. Shattuck: Dr. J. C. Warren; Prof. William Weston; Dr. W. F. Whitney; Prof. C. Whittaker.

Committee on Rooms for Meetings:- Prof. W. P. Atkinson; L. S. Burbank; Edw. Burgess; W. O. Crosby; Prof. C. R. Cross; Prof. F. H. Howison; Prof A. Hyatt; Prof. G. Lanza; Prof. W. R. Nichols; Prof. J. M. Ordway, Chairman; Prof. C. P. Otis: Prof. R. H. Richards, Secretary; E. P. Seaver; Homer B. Sprague; Prof. W. R. Ware; Prof. C. H. Wing.

Committee on Mails, Express and Telegraph :- Waldo Adams; Prof. A. Graham Bell; Dr. Clarence J. Blake, Secretary; F. C. Bowditch; George L. Bradley; Col. W. W. Clapp; Prof. C. R. Cross, Chairman; James Eggleston; Col. William H. Forbes: D. A. Goddard; E. L. Godkin; E. B. Haskell; Col. T. W. Higginson; W. A. Hovey; Gardiner G. Hubbard; George F. Miliken; Patrick T. Jackson; Col. R. M. Pulsifer; Waldo O. Ross; M. E. Wadsworth; Dr. G. F. Waters; R. Worthington.

Committee on Excursions:- Edward Atkinson, Chairman; Ernest W. Bowditch; Dr. Henry P. Bowditch, Secretary; C. H. Dalton; W. M. Davis, Jr.; Dr. John Dean; Dr. Thomas Dwight; Dr. R. T. Edes; J. Rayner Edmands; R. B. Forbes; James B. Francis; Dr. Samuel A. Green; Prof. H. W. Haynes; Prof. J. B. Henck; Hamilton A. Hill; Dr. S. Kneeland; H. F. Mills; Prof. Henry Mitchell; Prof. Wi liam H. Niles; Gen. F. W. Palfrey; S. R. Payson: E. S. Philbrick; J. D. Philbrick; Dr. C. P. Putnam; Dr. J. J. Putnam; Dr. H. P. Quincy: Col. H. S. Russell; C. S. Storrow; Dr. J. C. Warren; Prof. H. L. Whiting; Dr. Edward Wigglesworth; Dr. C H. Williams.

Cambridge Committee:- A. Agassiz, Chairman; Lucien Carr: Prof. William Cook; Prof. J. P. Cooke; Pres. C. W. Eliot; Prof. H. L. Eustis; Dr. W. G. Farlow; Prof. Wolcott Gibbs; Dr. G. L. Goodale; Prof. Asa Gray; Dr. H. A. Hagen; Prof. E. N. Horsford; Prof. Joseph Lovering; Prof. Benjamin Peirce; Prof. E. C. Pickering, Secretary; F. W. Putnam; Prof. W. A. Rogers; S. H. Scudder; Arthur Searle; Prof N. S. Shaler; Prof. John Trowbridge: Sereno Watson; Prof. C. J. White; Prof. J. D. Whitney Justin Winsor: Dr. Morrill Wyman.

Salem Committee:- Rev E. S. Atwood; Rev. Edwin C. Bolles; James H. Emerton; George R. Emmerton; Hon. William C. Endicott; Abner C. Goodell, Jr.; Daniel B. Hagar; Thomas F. Hunt; Rev. Fielder Israel; Dr. Amos H. Johnson: Frank R. Kimball; Hon. James Kimball; Hon. Otis P. Lord; Dr. William Mack; Richard C. Manning, Secretary; Prof. Edward S. Morse; Gen. Henry K. Oliver; Francis Peabody; S. Endicott Peabody; David Pingree; Robert S. Rantoul; John Robinson; Jacob C. Rogers; Gen. William Sutton; Dr. Henry Wheatland, Chairman; Hon. Stephen G. Wheatland; Capt. George M. Whipple.

Executive Committee:-Messrs. William B. Rogers; F. W. Putnam; C. W. Scudder; S. H. Scudder; E. Burgess, with the Chairman and Secretaries of the several special committees.