VOL. XV, PP. VM-XVIII JANUARY 31, 1903 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



PROCEEDINGS. 



The Society meets in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club 

 on alternate Saturdays at 8 p. m. Brief notices of the meetings, 

 with abstracts of the papers, are published in Science. 



January 11, 1902347111 Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 22 persons present. 

 F. A. Lucas exhibited a malformed mastodon tooth showing 

 duplication of cusps. 



The following communications were presented: 



M. B. Waite: A Problem in Plant Physiology and Patho- 



W. H. Osgood: The Supposed Occurrence of Caribou on the 

 Queen Charlotte Islands.* 



Jacob Kotinsky: Present Opinion Concerning the Home of 

 the San Jose Scale. 



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January 25, 1902 348th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 34 persons present. 

 W. H. Dall discussed the practice of rejecting zoological 

 names preoccupied by those identical except in termination. 

 The following communications were presented: 

 David Griffiths: A Seed Planter, f 



*North Am. Fauna No. 21, pp. 26-28, 1901. 

 fBull. Tor. Bot., 01, 29; 164-169, 1892. 



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