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F. H. Knowlton : The Amount of Water Transpired by Plants. 

 B. W. Evermann : On the Red Fish of the Idaho Lakes. 



December 15, 1894 234th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and eighteen persons present. 

 The following communications were presented : 

 Charles T. Simpson : The Validity of the Genus Margaritana.* 

 C. V. Riley : Some Interesting Results of Injuries to Trees. 

 Erwin F. Smith : The Last Phase of the Root Tubercle Ques- 

 tion.f 



December 29, 1894 235th Meeting. 



(Fifteenth Annual Meeting.) 



The President in the chair and fifteen persons present. 



The annual reports of the Secretary and Treasurer were pre 

 sented, and officers for 1895 were elected as follows : 



President : Surgeon General George M. Sternberg. 



Vice- Presidents : Richard Rathbun, C. D. Walcott, B. E. Fer- 

 now, L. 0. Howard. 



Recording Secretary : M. B. Waite. 



Corresponding Secretary : F. A. Lucas. 



Treasurer: F. H. Knowlton. 



Additional Members of the Council : Wm. H. Ashmead, Tarleton 

 H. Bean, Theobald Smith, Ch. Wardell Stiles, F. W. True. 



January 12, 1895 236th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and fifty-three persons present. 



The evening was devoted to a lecture by 



L. H. Bailey : The Plant Individual in the Light of Evolution. J 



January 26, 1895 237th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and fifteen persons present. 

 The following communications were presented : 

 L. 0. Howard : A New Cotton Enemy brought over from 

 Mexico. 



* Am. Nat., vol. 29, 336-344, April, 1895. 

 t Am. Nat., vol. 29, 898-903, Oct., 1895. 



J The Plant Individual in the Light of Evolution. <Science, NS., I., 

 281-292, March 15, 1895. 



