Proceedings. xiii 



November 13, 1920— 615th Meeting. 12 



Vice-President N. Hollister was in the chair; 40 persons 

 were present. 



O. P. Silliman, M. Sloog, S. S. Berry and H. J. Pack were 

 elected to membership. 



Informal Communications: Paul Bartsch, Notes on injury 

 by a new Teredo in San Francisco Bay, and on recently differ- 

 entiated species of land shells of the genus Epiphragmorpha 

 in California, and on the odor of honey eating birds in the 

 Hawaiian Islands; T. S. Palmer, Note on the recent meeting 

 of the American Ornithologists' Union; N. Hollister, Note 

 on the interest in technical subjects in the Biological Society; 

 Wm. Palmer, Exhibit of type skull of Rhabdosteus, an extinct 

 dolphin-like animal. 



Formal Communications: R. W. Shufeldt, A snake af- 

 fected with Chiggers; Chas. W. Gilmore, Remarks on some 

 additions to the fossil vertebrate exhibition in the U. S. National 

 Museum. 



November 27, 1920 — 616th Meeting. 13 



Vice-President Hollister was in the chair; 4G persons were 

 present. 



The following were elected to membership: H. E. Ewing, 

 R. A. Cushman, R. M. Fouts, T. C. Greene, Carl Heinrich, 

 W. M. Mann, H. Morrison, W. Schaus, L. H. Weld, G. E. 

 Thompson, T. B. Wilson, C. R. Aschemeier, A. L. Bennett, 

 N. H. Boss, W. L. Brown, T. Horn, J. B. Reeside, Jr., Miss 

 G. O. Visel, P. C. Villanneva, D. H. Adams, Miss L. Allison, 

 G. L. Bowen, T. J. Brimer, C. T. Buckingham, Miss A. M. 

 Charest, Miss E. E. Chickering, W. F. Coakley, G. W. Cres- 

 well, F. B. Cunningham, W. G. Cushard, Waiva Dean, Joel 

 Deuterman, Miss A. E. Drew, Miss M. E. Drew, E. J. Drum- 

 mond, D. L. DuPre, E. M. Ellerson, P. S. Gault, W. H. Geisler, 

 W. A. Gersdorff, E. J. Grass, Miss H. F. Hadden, Miss E. 

 M. Hamric, Miss D. Hansen, S. M. Harding, G. S. Hastings, 

 W. H. Hughes, W. Johnson, J. L. 'McCarther, F. A. Mayer, 

 Miss A. J. Mills, F. Moore, R. W. Murray, Miss E. Nathanson, 

 A. D. O'Donnell, Miss H. R. Ostrom, L. A. Passalaequa, C. W. 

 Parker, H. W. Potter, A. Preece, R. B. Rench, M. Riwchun, 



12 Abstracts in the Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 1 1, No. 3, p. 65, Feb. 4, 1920. 

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