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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



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PROCEEDINGS. 



The Society meets from October to May, on alternate Sat- 

 urdays, at 8 p. m. 



January 12, 1918— 577th Meeting.* 



Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club.t 



President J. N. Rose in the chair; 38 persons present. 



New members were elected as follows: E. A. Chapin, F. P. 

 Metcalf, and Charles E. Chambliss. 



The death of Katherine M. Raber was announced. 



President Rose announced the membership of the Publica- 

 tion Committee as: C. W. Richmond, J. H. Riley, N. Dearborn, 

 and W. L. McAtee; of the Committee on Communications as: 

 Wm. Palmer, Alexander Wetmore, R. E. Coker, L. O. Howard 

 and A. S. Hitchcock. 



Informal communications: Gen. T. E. Wilcox, Note on the 

 inability of camels to swim; A. S. Hitchcock, Note on plans for 

 establishing an abstract journal of botany. 



Formal communications: N. E. Mclndoo, The senses of in- 

 sects; Eleanor C. Allen (introduced by President Rose), Wax 

 models of fleshy fungi; C. B. Doyle, Some agricultural and 

 botanical features of Haiti. 



January 26, 1918— 578th Meeting.* 



President Rose in the chair; 62 persons present. 



J. B. Norton and S. F. Blake were elected to membership. 



* Abstracts in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 8, pp. 138-140, March 4, 1918. 

 t The 577th to 584th meetings were held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club. 

 t Abstracts in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 8, pp. 177-179, March 19, 1918. 



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