xiv The Biological Society of Washington. 



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PROCEEDINGS. 



The Society meets in the Asseml)ly Hall of the Cosmos Clul) 

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

 with abstracts of the papers, are publislied in Science. 



January 6, 1906 — 409th Meeting. 



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



J. W. Titcomb exhibited a mud nest of the hornero or red 

 oven-bird (Furnarius rufus) from Argentina. 



L. 0. Howard remarked upon the New Orleans meeting of 

 the A. A. A. S. 



Henry Van Deman exhibited two large apples, the Newtown 

 and Esopus, from the Hood River N'alley, Oregon. 



The following communication was presented: 



Alvin Scale: Notes on the Natural History of the South Pa- 

 cific Islands. 



