Vol. XVII, pp. vii-xii January 20. 1905 



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 Sri ewe. 



January g, 1904 — 38oih Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 57 persons present. 



F. A. Lucas noted the occurrence of Mustela pennanti as a 

 fossil in Pennsylvania. 



B. W. Evermann exhibited a collection of labels used by the 

 canners of the Pacific coast for labeling canned salmon. 



The following communications were presented : 



F. V. Coville : Desert Plants as a Source of Drinking Water.* 



V. K. Chesnut : Death Gulch of the Yellowstone Park. 



0. F. Cook : An Exogenous Palm from Guatemala. 



January 23, 1904 — 381st Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 36 persons present. 

 The following communications were presented : 

 ' E. W. Nelson : A Winter Trip in Mexico. t 

 B. W. Evermann and W. C. Kendall : An Interesting Fish 

 from the High JMountains of Central Ecuador. 



* Ann. Rept. Smithsonian Inst, for 1903, pp. 499-505, figs. 1^, pis. i-ii, 1904. 

 tNat. Geog. Mag., XV, p. 341, Sept., 1904. 



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