Proceedings. xvii 



May 12, 1906 — 417th Meeting. 



The following communications were prestnttMl : 

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

 T. H. Kearney : The Excretion of Hygroscopic Salts 1)y Cer- 

 tain Desert Plants. t 



October 20, 1906 — 418th 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 exhiljited a curious desert plant, Calibanus, re- 

 sembling a puff-ball. + 



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. Lyon, Jr.: Local Races of Bornean Squirrels. 

 Karl F. Kellerman: The Use of Copper in Sanitation. 



November 17, 1906 — 420th Meeting. 



' \'ice-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. 

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



