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November 30, 1918-587th Meeting.* 



Carnegie Institution, 16th and P Streets N. W. 



Vice-President Hopkins in the chair; 35 persons present. 



The deaths of Douglas C.JVlabbott, killed in battle in France, 

 D. E. Lantz and Frederick Knab, were noted. 



Informal communications: L. 0. Howard, Remarks on a 

 noxious European snail recently discovered in California; T. S. 

 Palmer, Notes on the recent meeting of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union; on birds of paradise in the New York Zoo- 

 logical Society's Park, and on scarcity of seed food for caged 

 birds; R. W. Shufeldt, Remarks on preserving fluids. 



Formal communications- A. S. Hitchcock, Some notes on the 

 botany of Long's Peak, Colorado; M. W. Lyon, Jr., Influenza. 



December 14, 1918— 588th Meeting.! 

 Thirty-ninth Annual Meeting. 



Carnegie Institution. 16th and P Streets N. W. 



President Rose in the chair; 18 members present. 



The following were elected to membership: J. Chester Brad- 

 ley, Frank L. Burns, W. Lee Chambers, C. I. Clay, Charles B. 

 Cory, Maunsell S. Crosby, Frank S. Daggett, Charles C. Deam, 

 H. M. Denslow, Philip Dowell, Morton J. Elrod, George L. 

 Fordyce, Henry W. Fowler, Albert O. Garrett, H. Gifford, 

 Arthur H. Helme, Charles W. Howard, V. A. Huard, Lynds 

 Jones, Frederic C. Kennard, John Dryden Kuser, Joseph Mail- 

 Hard, Alexander Howard MacKay, Frank T. McFarland, 

 Edward A. Mcllhenny, William B. Mershon, Robert Thomas 

 Moore, James Alexander Munro, E. Lawrence Palmer, Ray- 

 mond J. Pool, Charles Theodore Ramsden, Samuel F. Rathbun, 

 Joseph Francis Charles Rock, C. Otto Rosendahl, Aretas A. 

 Saunders, W. E. Saunders, Althea R. Sherman, Charles A. 

 Shull, Frank Smith, P. A. Taverner, Reginald Charles Tre- 

 herne, Harry B. Weiss and C. B. Williamson. 



Annual reports of officers and committees were received. 



Election of officers for the year 1919 resulted as follows: 



President: H. M. Smith. 



♦Abstracts in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 9, pp. 54, 55, January 19, 1919. 

 f Abstracts id Journ. Washineton Acad. Sci., vol. 9, p. 55, January 19, 1919. 



