Proceedings. ix 



April 4, 1903 syoth Meeting. 



Vice-President Ashmead in the chair and 39 persons present. 



The following communications were presented : 



H. J. Webber : Bud Sports and Bud Variation in Breeding. 



R. H. True : The Manufacture of Tea in America. 



W. C. Kendall : The Fishes of the Rangely Lakes. 



April 18, 1903 37ist Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 25 persons present. 



The following communications were presented : 



W. J. Spillman : Agrostological Problems in the United States. 



B. H. Dutcher: The Mammals of Mount Katahdin, Maine.* 



V. K. Chesnut : Notes on the Dissemination of Sedum douglassi by 

 Proliferous Shoots. 



May 2, 1903 372nd Meeting. 



Vice-President Hay in the chair and 25 persons present. 

 The following communications were presented : 



F. V. Coville: Wocas: An Aboriginal Cereal (Nymphaea polysepala}.-\ 

 J. W. T. Duvel : Vitality of Seeds. J 



G. H. Shull : Geographic Distribution of the Sugary Quillwort (Isoetes 

 saccharata). \ 



May 16, 1903 373rd Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 30 persons present. 



F. V. Coville exhibited a monstrous specimen of the grape-hyacinth. 



Frank Baker announced that the collection at the National Zoological 

 Park had recently been increased by three specimens of the echidna and 

 by the birth of a tapir. 



The following communications were presented : 



C. W. Stiles: The New American Hook-worm and its Medical Im 

 portance. || 



F. V. Coville : Location of the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carne 

 gie Institution.^ 



October 17, 1903 374th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 1.7 persons present. 



L. 0. Howard spoke of the length of silk in single cocoons of the silk 

 worm, stating that in 15 cocoons actually measured the length varied from 

 880 to 1,102 yards. 



* Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVI, pp. 63-72, May 29, 1903. 



t Ann. Kept. U. S. Nat. Museum for 1902, pp. 725-739, March, 1904. 



t To be published as a bulletin of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture. 



g Botanical Gazette, XXXVI, pp. 187-202, Sept., 1903. 



|| Bull. No. 10, Hyg. Lab., U. S. Pub. Health and Marine Hosp. Serv., pp. 1-121, fig. 1-86, 

 1903. 



\ Carnegie Inst., Wash., Pub. No. 6, 1903. 



