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The 114th meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences was 

 held in the auditorium of the Natm-al History Building of the National 

 Museum the evening of February 1, 1917. The retiring president of 

 the Academy, Dr. L. O. Howard, delivered an illus:trated lecture 

 Entitled The carriage of disease by insects. The address has since been 

 published in abridged form in the Journal of the Academy (7: 217-222. 

 April 19, 1917). 



The 115th meeting of the Academy was held in the Assembl}^ Hall 

 of the Cosmos Club the evening of March 15, 1917, the occasion being 

 the presentation of the first of a series of public lectures on Heredity. 

 I^of. H. S. Jennings, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, delivered 

 an address entitled Observed changes in hereditary characters in relation 

 to evolution. This has since been published in full in the Journal of 

 the Academy (7: 281-301. May 19, 1917). 



The 1 16th meeting of the Academy was held in the Assembly Hall 

 of the Cosmos Club the evening of March 29, 1917, the speaker being 

 Dr. Oscar Riddle, of the Department of Experimental Evolution, 

 Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Doctor Riddle's lecture, entitled 

 The control of the sex ratio, has been published in full in the Journal of 

 the Academy (7: 319-356. June 4, 1917). 



The 117th meeting of the Academy was held in the Assembly Hall 

 of the Cosmos Club the evening of April 13, 1917. The speaker. Prof. 

 W. E. Castle, of Harvard University, delivered an address entitled 

 The role of selection in heredity. This lecture, which concluded the 

 series on Heredity, has since been published under a shghtly different 

 title in the Journal of the Academy (7: 369-387. June 19, 1917). 



William R. Maxon, Recording Secretary. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The 513th meeting of the Society was held at the National Museum, 

 October 2, 1917, at 4.30 p.m. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Curator of Physical Anthropology, U. S. 

 National Museum, addressed the Society on Bohemia and the Bohem- 

 ians, illustrating his address with lantern slides. 



"Bohemia," said Dr. Hrdlicka, "is not a large country but one with 

 a great history; and while among the oldest in Europe and one of the 

 most battered by fate it is struggling vigorously to regain its freedom 

 which it lost in the dark period of the seventeenth century. Its people 

 have been endowed with an unquenchable love of liberty and its free 

 sons are now fighting in every Allied army." 



The speaker then noted the geographic position of Bohemia in the 

 center of Europe, surrounded by a natural boundary of hills and moun- 

 tains. Its area is about one-fourth greater than that of Switzerland, 



