Proceedings. xi 



December 17, 1904 393rd Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 38 persons present. 



The following communications were presented : 



E. L. Greene : The Earliest Systematic Book of Botany. 



A. B. Baker : Animals Recently Received at the National 

 Zoological Park from Ahyssinia and South America. 



Hugh M . Smith : The Japanese Dwarf Salmon and the Fish 

 ing Therefor with Trained Cormorants.* 



December 31, 1904 394th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 24 persons present. 



The annual reports of the Recording Secretary and the Treas 

 urer were read and accepted. The following officers were elected 

 for the year 1905 : 



President : Frank H. Knowlton. 



Vice-Presidents : E. L. Greene, W. P. Hay, E. W. Nelson, 

 T. S. Palmer. 



Recording Secretary : Wilfred H. Osgood. 



Corresponding Secretary : Edward L. Morris. 



Treasurer : David White. 



Councillors: A. K. Fisher, A. D. Hopkins, J. N. Rose, L. 

 Stejneger, H. J. Webber. 



The President announced the appointment of the following 

 standing committees for the year 1905 : 



Committee on Publications: W. P. Hay, David White, W. H. 

 Osgood, E. A. Goldman, C. A. McKnew. 



Committee on Communications : Vernon Bailey, A. B. Baker, 

 A. D. Hopkins, J. N. Rose, H. M. Smith. 



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* To be published by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries ; see also Trans. Amer. Fisheries 

 p. 101,1904. 



