Proceedings. ix 



April 4, 1908 — 443d Meeting. 



Vice-President Hay in the chair and 40 persons present. 

 L. O. Howard noted the discovery of a new species of scale 

 insect. 



B. W. Evermann announced the successful inoculation of 

 fishes with the glochidia of fresh water mussels. 



The following communications were presented: 



C. L. Marlatt: The White Fly Problem in Florida. 

 W . C. Kendall: Notes on Sebago Lake. 



April 18, 1908— 444th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 32 persons present. 

 The following communication was presented : 

 W '. A. Murrill: Cuba and Cuban Agriculture. 



May 2, 1908 — 445th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 29 persons present. 

 Mr. Bailey Willis outlined the plans of the Washington Acad- 

 emy of Sciences with reference to its proposed journal. 

 Tin 1 following communications were presented: 

 Loco Weed Investigations in Field and Laboratory.* 

 R. H. True: Laboratory Investigations of A. C. Crawford. 

 C. D. Marsh : Field Investigations. 



October 17, 1908 — 446th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 26 persons present. 



L. O. Howard noted his observation of one individual of the 

 common drone fly in the council room a few minutes earlier. 



Miss F. G. Mitchell noted flies of the same species in a win- 

 dow at 14th and H streets the present evening. 



T. N. Gill noted an undescribed fish (Anomalous) from the 

 West Indies. 



B. W. Evermann mentioned new vernacular names of fishes 

 at Sault Ste Marie. 



T. E. Wilcox referred to the use by Indians of the name tsetse 

 for a certain fly. 



* Bull. 129, Bureau of Plant Industry, 1908; Science, Oct. 'J;;. 1908, p. 570. 



