Proceedings. xiii 



Albert F. Woods: Additional Notes on the Spot Disease of 

 Carnations.* 



November 9, 1899 suth Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 26 persons present. 



The following communications were presented: 



L. O. Howard: Preliminary Notice of an Investigation of 



the Insect Fauna of Human Excrement, f 



W. H. Dall: Notes on Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands.^ 

 G. K. Gilbert: The Submerged Forests of the Columbia 



River. 



November 18, 1899 3i2th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 39 persons present. 



H. J. Webber called attention to the morphologically com 

 pound nature of the leaves of Ampelopsis tricuspidata and ex 

 hibited specimens collected by Doctor Evans. 



The following communications were presented: 



F. A. Lucas: Letter from H. H. Field concerning the Con 

 cilium Bibliographicum and the proposed Catalogue of the 

 Royal Society. 



F. V. Coville: The Botanical Explorations of Thomas Nut- 

 tall in Calif ornia. 



Barton W. Evermann: A Physical and Biological Survey of 

 Lake Maxinkuckee. 



December 2, 1899313111 Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 31 persons present. 



W. H. Dall exhibited specimens of JSarringtonia speciosa 

 and called attention to the practice of stupifying the fish by 

 this so called fish poison by throwing the bruised kernels into 

 small ponds, etc. || 



Walter Evans stated that trifoliate and tripartite grape leaves 



*Bull. No. 19, Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology U. S. 

 Dept. of Agr. 1900. 



fProc. Wash. Acad. Sci. II, pp. 541-603. 2 pi. and 22 figs. 

 {Nation LXIX, No. 1792, pp. 331-333, Nov. 2, 1899. 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XIII, pp. 109-121, Dec. 30, 1899. 

 | Nation LXIX, p. 331. 



