BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP WASHINGTON. 



Mr. G. Brown Goode read a paper entitled THE MACKEREL,* 

 and was followed by Captain J. W. Collins who explained and illus 

 trated the uses of the various kinds of apparatus used in the mack 

 erel fishery, f 



FIFTEENTH MEETING, June 17, 1881. 



The President occupied the chair. Fifty-two members were 

 present. 



Mr. Robert Ridgway exhibited a collection of wild and domesti 

 cated turkeys. Mr. Newton P. Scudder made a communication 

 upon the breeding habits of the Painted Tortoise, Chrysemys picta. 

 Dr. Thomas Taylor exhibited some specimens of a tapeworm from 

 the common hog.J Mr. Frederick W. True exhibited the first vol 

 ume of the new annual, Zoologischer Jahresbericht, published in Leip 

 zig, and compared its merits with those of the London Zoological 

 Record Prof. C. V. Riley exhibited specimens of the seventeen- 

 year locust, and the Rocky Mountain locust, explaining the differ 

 ence between them and describing their habits. 



The Society then adjourned to the basement of the Smithsonian 

 Building, where Col. Marshall McDonald described some recent 



black in a | patient while under treatment by | pilocarpin. Report of a | py- 

 elo-nephiritis, with unusu- | ally prolonged anuria. | 2. | Care ol membranous 

 croup treated sue- | cessfully by pilocarpin. | By | D. W. Prentiss, A.M., M. D., 

 | Professor Materia Medica and Therapeutics, National Medical College, Wash 

 ington, D. C. | | Printed by | J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, j 1881. 

 8vo.,pp. 15 + 1. 



Also Change in the color of the human hair under the use of pilocarpin. 

 <Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic. XLVI. 1881. (Sept. 3. ) pp. 202-205 ; colored 

 plate and < Proceedings of American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, XXX, (Cincinnati Meeting,) 1881. 



* 1882. GOODE, G. BROWN. Natural History of the Mackerel. <Materials 

 for a History of the Mackerel Fishery in Report U. S. Fish Commission. Part 

 VII for 1 88 1, pp. (i)-(48.) 



f 1882. COLLINS, JOSEPH W. (With G. Brown Goode.) The Mackerel 

 Fishery of the United States. Ibid. pp. (49)-(i4O-f.) 



* 1882. TAYLOR, THOMAS. On a tape-worm from the common hog. <Re- 

 port of the Commission of Agriculture for 1882, pp. . (In press.) 



1881. RILEY, CHARLES V. The Periodical Cicada alias " Seventeen-year 

 Locust." < American Naturalist, XV, 1881, pp. 479-481, one figure. 



