Proceedings. xvii 



May 12, 1906 4iyth Meeting. 



The following communications were presented : 

 W. J. Spillman : Mendelian Characters in Cattle.* 

 T. H. Kearney : The Excretion of Hygroscopic Salts by Cer 

 tain Desert Plants.! 



October 20, 1906 4i8th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 50 persons present. 



B. W. Evermann noted the successful introduction of Chinook 

 salmon in Lake Sunapee, N. H. 



J. N. Rose exhibited a curious desert plant, Calibanus, re 

 sembling a puff-ball. J 



C. V. Piper exhibited a specimen of the Japanese "hagi" 

 (Lespedeza bicolor), showing the peculiar fasciation. 



The following communication was presented : 

 W. J. Spillman: The Mechanism of Heredity. 



November 3, 1906 4igth Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 27 persons present. 

 The following communications were presented : 

 Theodore Gill : The Work of Pterophryne and the Flying 

 Fishes. 



M. W. Lyoii, Jr.: Local Races of Borneaii Squirrels. 

 Karl F. Keller man: The Use of Copper in Sanitation. 



November 17, 1906 42oth Meeting. 



Vice-President Hay in the chair and 40 persons present. 



A. S. Hitchcock made some remarks on the code of nomen 

 clature adopted by the International Congress of Zoologists at 

 Vienna. 



A. A. Doolittle exhibited an abnormal rose. 



The following communications were presented : 



Edward L. Greene: On So-called Rhus Toxicodendron. 



Barton W. Evermann: Fish Culture and Fish and Game Pro 

 tection in the Cornell and Yale Forest Schools. 



William Palmer: A Record of the Black Rat in Virginia. 



* Science N. S., XXIII, No. 588, 549, Apr. 6, 1906. 

 t Science N. S., XIX, No. 480, 419, Mch. 11, 1904. 

 J Contr. Nat. Herb., 10: 90, 1906. 



