x The Biological Society of Washington. 



October 19, 1901 34ist Meeting. 



Vice President Ashmead in the chair and 21 persons present. 

 The following communications were presented: 

 C. W. Stiles: The Recent International Zoological Congress. 

 W. H. Ashmead: An Entomologist in the Sandwich Islands. 

 Theo. Gill: Some Difficulties of Nomenclature at the Zoolog 

 ical Congress. 



November 2, 1901 342d Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 39 persons present: 



H. J. Webber exhibited a diseased pineapple and discussed 



the cause of the condition. 



The following communications were presented: 

 Charles Louis Pollard: Notes on a Trip to Mount Mitchell. 

 II. J. Webber: A Cowpea Resistant to Root Knot Worm.* 

 Frederick V. Coville: Exhibition of Specimens of Alaskan 



Willows. 



M. A. Carleton: Characteristics and Distribution of Xero- 



phytic Wheats, f 



November 16, 1901 343d Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 28 persons present. 



C. P. Hartley exhibited some malformed ears of corn grown 

 from seed taken from ears similarly abnormal. 



H. E. Van Deman exhibited a specimen of the ripe fruit of 

 guava grown in Florida. 



L. O. Howard announced that he had just learned through a 

 letter from C. L. Marlatt that the original habitat of the San 

 Jose scale insect had been found to be in China. 



The following communications were presented: 



H. G. Dyar: Notes on Mosquito Larvae. 



Vernon Bailey: The Little Deer of the Chisos Mountains, 

 Texas, with exhibition of specimens. 



Barton W. Evermann: Birds in the Dry Season. 



C. B. Simpson: Some Observations on Jack Rabbits. 



*To be published as a Bulletin of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. 

 Dept. Agric. 



fBull. No. 3, Bureau PI. Ind., U. 8. Dept. Agric., under the title, 

 Macaroni Wheats. 



