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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



PROCEEDINGS. 



The Society meets in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club 

 on alternate Saturdays at 8 p. m. 



January 13, 1917— 563d Meeting.* 



President W. P. Hay in the chair, 45 persons present. 



W. L. McAtee and Alexander Wetmore called attention to 

 the presence of white-winged crossbills in the vicinity of Wash- 

 ington. 



W. L. McAtee mentioned the lingering of a Cape May warbler 

 and a blue gray gnatcatcher into December and the finding of 

 a box turtle on January 7, 1917. 



E. A. Goldman reported Hudsonian chickadees in the vicinity 

 of New York City and Boston. 



A. S. Hitchcock spoke of the precautions that were being 

 taken in the care of the herbarium of the British Museum. 



The regular program consisted of three communications as 

 follows : 



Some European Experiences with Entomologists; L. O. 

 Howard . 



Recent Additions to the List of North American Birds ; H. C. 

 Oberholser. 



The Fossil Seacow of Maryland ; Wm. Palmer. 



January 27, 1917— 564th Meeting.! 



President Hay in the chair, 45 persons present. 



Dr. O. P. Hay showed a metacarpal of a horse with well 



* Abstracts in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 7, pp.118 to 120, February 19, 

 1917; and in Science, N. S., vol. 45, pp. 343, 344, April 6, 1917. 



t Abstracts in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 7, pp. 165, 166, March 19, 1917; and 

 in Science, N. S., vol. 45, pp. 367, 368, April 13. 1917. 



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