xii The Biological Society of Washington. 



F. V. Coville : The Inflorescence of the Juncacese. 



Theo. Holm : The Alpine Flora of Pikes Peak and Grays 

 Peak, in Colorado. 



C. L. Pollard : Some Farther Remarks on Britton and Brown's 

 Illustrated Flora. 



Under the head of Brief Notes 



F. V. Coville exhibited an Indian bow made of Taxus brevifolia. 



Theo. Holm showed a number of rare old books, and dis 

 cussed the derivation of the generic name ' MacounastrumS 



December 5, 1896 267th Meeting. 



Mr. L. O. Howard, representative of the Joint Commission, in 

 the chair. 



Annual address of the President, Surgeon General George M. 

 Sternberg: The Malarial Parasite and other Pathogenic Pro 

 tozoa. (Illustrated by lantern slides.) * 



December 19, 1896 268th Meeting. 



(Seventeenth Annual Meeting.) 



Vice-President L. O, Howard in the chair and twenty-nine 

 persons present. 



The annual reports of the Secretary and Treasurer for the year 

 1896 were presented, and officers for the year 1897 were elected 

 as follows : 



President: L. O. Howard. 



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

 F. V. Coville. 



Recording Secretary : C. L. Pollard. 



Corresponding Secretary : F. A. Lucas. 



Treasurer: F. H. Knowlton. 



Additional Members of the Council: William H. Ash mead, Ed 

 ward L. Greene, Ch. Wardell Stiles, F. W. True, M. B. Waite. 



The following standing committees were appointed by the 

 chair : 



On Communications : B. E. Fernow, chairman ; F. V. Coville, 

 M. B. Waite, E. A. De Schweinitz, W. H. Ashmead. 



On Publications : C. Hart Merriam, chairman ; T. S. Palmer, 

 F. H. Knowlton. 



* Public meeting in Builders' Exchange Hall, under the auspices of the 

 Joint Commission, followed by an informal reception and refreshments. 

 Several hundred persons were present. 



