viii The Biological Society of Washington. 



February 7, 1903366111 Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 37 persons present. 

 The following communications were presented : 



Vernon Bailey : The Goodnight Herd of Buffaloes and Cataloes in Texas.* 

 T. H. Kearney : Further Observations on the Effect upon Seedlings of 

 Sodium and Magnesium. 

 Frank Bond : Irrigation Methods and Machinery. 



February 21, 1903 367111 Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 34 persons present. 



Carleton R. Ball exhibited specimens of 5 species of grasses of the genus 

 Elymus, illustrating differences between those grown in open and in shady 

 places. 



The following communications were presented : 



D. E. Salmon : The Recent Outbreak of the Foot and Mouth Disease in 

 New England. f 



H. J. Webber: Egyptian Cotton in the United States. J 



W. E. Safford : The Fauna of the Island of Guam.g 



March 7, 1903 368th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 42 persons present. 



F. A. Lucas exhibited lantern slides showing the famous fossil-bearing 

 quarries of Solenhofen, Bavaria, and also views of colonies of iguanas on 

 the Galapagos Islands. 



The following communications were presented : 



F. W. True : Attitudes and Movements of Living Whales.]) 



0. F. Cook : Biological Notes from Liberia. 



March 21, 1903 36gth Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 31 persons present. 



T. D. A. Cockerell exhibited specimens of cockleburs intermediate be 

 tween Xanthium commune and Xanthium commune intermedium. 



B. W. Evermann spoke of shad from Pensacola, Florida, found to be 

 identical with the Alabama shad. 



The following communications were presented : 



T. S. Palmer : The Preservation of Pelican Island as a Breeding Ground 

 for Birds. 



Walter H. Evans : The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



Vernon Bailey : Desert Life of Western Texas. 



Paul Bartsch : Notes on the Herons of the District of Columbia.^ 



* Forest and Stream, LX, p. 325, Apr. 25, 1903. 



1 19th Ann. Kept. Bur. Anim. Industry, U. S. Dept. Agric., pp. 391-408, 1903. 



j Trans. New Eng. Cotton Manuf. Assoc., No. 74, pp. 202-216, 1903 ; Proc. 7th Ann. 

 Conven. So. Cotton Spinners' Assoc., pp. 127-141, 1903. 



Birds of the Marianne Ids., The Osprey, N. S., 1, pp. 39-42, March, 1902 ; pp. 65-70, 

 April, 1902. 



U Smithsonian Misc. Col., XLV (quarterly issue), pp. 91-94, pis. xxiv-xxvi, Dec. 9, 1903. 



If Smithsonian Misc. Col., XLV (quarterly issue), pp. 104-111, Dec. 9, 1903. 



