x Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 



February 7, 1920 — 606th Meeting. 3 



President Hopkins was in the chair; 45 persons were present. 



C. F. Sylvester, A. Boving, Miss Julia B. Hoge, Miss Doris 

 Cochran, Miss Ethel Wright, Miss Lillian Malone, Miss 

 Rosalie Field, H. S. Hoffman, J. L,. Baer, L. G. Usilton, J. 

 Stein, R. J. Bosworth, A. R. Denison, L. Rosenblatt, L. M. 

 Evans, W. A. Jenkins, J. E. Maxwell, and J. Russell were 

 elected to membership. 



Informal Communications : W. P. Taylor, Note on the flock- 

 ing of small birds in the forests of the northwest coast; R. E. 

 Coker, Note on the pearl fishery of the Mississippi River 

 Valley, and photograph of stages in the metamorphosis of the 

 Acorn Barnacle; T. S. Palmer, Note on the protection of quail 

 in the District of Columbia; H. M. Smith, Note upon the 

 Alaskan fur seal herd; Paul Bartsch, Note of the need of sup- 

 plying water for birds in cities. 



Formal Communications: C. Dwight Marsh, Some poison- 

 ous plants and their effects; Paul Bartsch, Our poison gas 

 detector, and how it was discovered. 



February 21, 1920 — 607th Meeting.* 

 (Joint meeting with Washington Academy of Sciences.) 



President A. D. Hopkins was in the chair; 75 persons were 

 present. 



Miss D. Langworthy, Miss Marion Pellew, and K. P. Schmidt 

 were elected to membership. 



Formal Communication: Dr. Alfred P. Meyer, The corals 

 of the American Samoa.* 



March 6, 1920 — 608th Meeting. 6 



Vice-President V. Bailey was in the chair; 50 persons were 

 present. 



T. I. Storer and Miss P. Brown were elected to member- 

 ship. 



Informal Communications: M. B. Waite, Exhibit of naked 



3 Abstracts in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 10, No. 10, p. 309, May 19, 1920. 



* Abstracts published in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 10, No. 10, p. 309, May 

 19, 1920. 



♦Published in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 59, No. 3, 

 pp. 224-236, 1920. 



« Abstracts in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 10, No. 20, p. 578, Dec. 4, 1920. 



