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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE yfT '' e 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



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PROCEEDINGS. 



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

 days, at 8 p. M. All meetings during 1922 were held in the new 

 lecture hall of the Cosmos Club, except no. 632, held in the 

 auditorium of the National Museum, and the special meeting 

 of September 29, held in the auditorium of the Interior Depart- 

 ment. 



January 4, 1922— 632d Meeting.' 



President V. Bailey in the chair; 176 persons present. 

 Formal communication: A. S. Pillsbury,^ Wild flowers and 

 birds of Yosemite National Park. 



January 21, 1922— 633d Meeting.^ 



President Bailey in the chair; 86 persons present. 



President Bailey announced the membership of the Commit- 

 tee on Communications as follows: S. A. Rohwer, Chairman, 

 and C. E. Chambliss, R. E. Coker, H. H. T. Jackson. 



New members elected: A. H. Fisher, Miss Lucy Howard, 

 H. F. Prytherch, H. M. Vars. 



Informal communications: R. W. Shufeldt, Exhibition of a 

 new biography of Alfred New^ton; I. N. Hoffmann, Exhibition 

 of Attacus edwardsii; E. A. Goldman, Meeting of the Boston 

 Bird-banding Society; R. W. WilUams, Roosting of starlings 

 near the Cosmos Club. 



Formal communications: S. F. Hildebrand, Fish in relation 

 to mosquito control; H. L. Shantz, Notes on the "white ants" 

 of Africa; C. D. Marsh, Livestock poisoning by death camas. 



lAbstract in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 12, p. 296, June 19. 1922. 



Jlntroduced by S. T. Mather. 



JAbstract in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 12, p. 296-297, June 19, 1922. 



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