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ordinary precautions are taken to prevent infection being carried on 

 the hands or clothing of the inspectors. 



After inspection the material may be (1) passed, if it is apparently 

 clean; (2) burned, if dangerous diseases are found; (3) ordered fumigated 

 or cleansed when the pests found can be eradicated by such treatment 

 (facilities for treating material are present in the inspection room) ; 

 or (4) ordered grown in quarantine. The quarantine greenhouse ad- 

 joining the inspection room is divided into small units where sus- 

 picious plants may be isolated and grown under close observation until 

 the proper disposition of them is determined. 



Moreover, much of the material which passes inspection is ordered 

 grown in the propagation gardens of the Government, one of which is 

 situated at Yarrow, Maryland. Here the plants are propagated and 

 grown under observation and are given a last close inspection when 

 finally ready for distribution. 



W. E. Safford, Corresponding Secretary. 



THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The 549th regular meeting of the Biological Society of Washington 

 was held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club, Saturday, January 

 29, 1916, at 8 p.m.; called to order by President Hay with thirty 

 persons present. 



The recent deaths of three members of the Society, G. D. Elliot, 

 A. M. Groves, and C. E. Slocum, were noted by the President. On 

 recommendation of the Council Dr. Walter K. Fisher, of Stanford 

 University, was elected to active membership. 



Under the heading "Brief Notes" Dr. L. 0. Howard told of some 

 of the published anecdotes regarding the entomologist General Dejean 

 who served under Napoleon I, and of his zeal as a collector even under 

 the excitement of battle. Also, Dr. H. M. Smith called attention 

 to the successful introduction of the tilefish into the markets, restaurants, 

 and homes of the United States. 



Under the heading "Exhibition of Specimens" Dr. Howard exhibited 

 a photographic lantern slide of Orsini's statue, Proximus Tuus, repre- 

 senting a malarial-stricken Italian peasant. The statue was exhibited 

 at the San Francisco fair and illustrations of it are used in a California 

 antimosquito campaign. By way of contrast Dr. Howard showed a 

 group of healthy children on the formerly malaria-infested Roman 

 Campagna. 



Under the same heading Mr. William Palmer exhibited several 

 bones of extinct cetaceans recently collected by him at Chesapeake Beach, 

 Maryland. He called attention to the work of Cope and of other 

 paleontologists on this group and pointed out the relationships of the 

 forms with some of the modern cetaceans. 



The regular program consisted of a paper by Dr. Ned Dearborn, 

 Fur farming in Alaska. Dr. Dearborn pointed out the possibilities 

 of fur farming in Alaska, stating that at present there are seventy- 



