x Proceedings. 



William Palmer: The Nesting Sites of the Blue Gray Gnat- 

 Catcher. 



H. J. Webber : The Dissemination of the Yucca. 



October 20, 1894 230th Meeting. 



Ex-President Wm. H. Dall in the chair and fifteen persons 

 present. 

 The following communications were presented : 



A. F. Woods : Some Effects of Spraying Mixtures on the 

 Growth of Plants.* 



Ch. Wardell Stiles : Experimental Trichinosis in a New Host.f 

 Short notes by several members. 



November 3, 1894 231st Meeting. 



The President in the chair and sixteen persons present. 



The following communications were presented : 



Theodore Gill: A Remarkable New Bassalian Family of 

 Crabs, t 



Charles T. Simpson : The Geographical Distribution of Land 

 Shells in Jamaica. 



M. A. Carleton : Notes on Artificial Infection with Uredospores. 



November 17, 1894 232d Meeting. 



The President in the chair and fifteen persons present. 



The following communications were presented : 



Charles L. Pollard : The Genus Cassia in America. 



Short notes and exhibitions of specimens by various members. 



December 1, 1894 233d Meeting. 



The President in the chair and thirty-four persons present. 

 The following communications were presented : 



B. T. Galloway: The Physiological Significance of Transpira 

 tion of Plants. 



* Proc. Amer. Ass. for the Adv. of Agrl. Science for 1895 (in press). 



f Notes on Parasites, 27: Experimental trichinosis in SpermopJtilus 13- 

 lineatus. <^Centralblatt f. Bakt. u. Parasitenkunde, xvi, No. 19, 777-778, 

 1894. Idem. <The Veterinary Magazine, i, No. 11 (for Nov., 1894), 

 727-728, Jan., 1895. 



J A new Bassalian type of Crabs. <Am. Nat,, vol. 28, 1043-J045, Dec., 

 1894. 



