PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFIUATED 



SOCIETIES 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The Board of Managers met on November 25, 19 18. Progress was 

 reported on arrangements for a meeting place for the affihated societies 

 and the problem offered by the rapidly increasing cost of publication 

 of the Journal was considered. 



The Board of Managers met on December 13, 19 18. The Editors 

 were authorized to transfer the contract for printing the Journal 

 for 1919 from the Williams & Wilkins Company, of Baltimore, to the 

 Eschenbach Printing Company, of Easton, Pennsylvania. 



The following persons have become members of the Academy since 

 the last issue of the Journal: Rear Admiral George Washington 

 Baird, U. S. N., Retired, 1505 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D. C. ; 

 Dr. Atherton Seidell, Hygienic Laboratory, Public Health Service, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Robert B. Sosman, Corresponding Secretary. 



THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The 587th regular meeting of the Society was held in the Assembly 

 Hall of the Carnegie Institution, Saturday, November 30, 1918; called 

 to order at 8. 10 p.m. by Vice President Hopkins; 35 persons present. 



Deaths of the following members were noted: Douglas C. Mab- 

 BOTT, killed in France; D. E. Lantz, former Recording Secretary of 

 the Society, victim of the recent epidemic of influenza; and Frederick 

 Knab. 



Informal communications were presented as follows: 



Dr. L. O. Howard called attention to a communication and speci- 

 mens he had received from Charles Russell Orcutt, of California. The 

 specimens had been identified by Dr. Paul Bartsch as a noxious Euro- 

 pean snail and had been discovered by Mr. Orcutt in a restricted area 

 in California. Dr. Howard told of the steps that were being taken 

 by the state to exterminate this newly imported species. This com- 

 munication was commented upon by Dr. Bartsch, w^ho mentioned 

 other introduced species of snails which had become pests. 



Dr. T. S. Palmer brought to the attention of the Society that the 

 year 19 18 had been a very prosperous one for the A. O. U. in spite of 

 wartime conditions. There are 950 members of the A. O. U., of whom 

 75 are in France. Of the latter, Douglas C. Mabbott, also a member 



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