Proceedings. xiii 



William Palmer; F. V. Coville, Note on a vine 1,134 feet in 

 length; A. S. Hitchcock and W. E. Safford, Comments upon the 

 foregoing; A. S. Hitchcock, Note on the forthcoming Flora of 

 the District of Columbia and vicinity; I. N. Hoffman, Note on 

 the reported observation of whooping cranes in Texas; William 

 Palmer, Remarks on the causes and biological effects of tidal 

 conditions in Chesapeake Bay; H. M. Smith, Exhibition and 

 note, an exceedingly small fish, Lucania ornata, from a fresh 

 water lake in Georgia. 



Formal communications: F. V. Coville, The strange story of 

 the Box Huckleberry; W. E. Safford, Plants used in the arts and 

 industries of ancient America. 



October 18, 1919— 599th Meeting. 1 



Vice-President Hollister presided; 36 persons present. 



Informal communications: R. W. Shufeldt, Exhibition of liv- 

 ing specimens of young and adult Wood Tortoises (Clemmys in- 

 sculpta) ; William Palmer, Notes on the local occurrence of the 

 Wood Tortoise; Paul Bartsch, Notes on the tameness of some 

 Red-breasted Nuthatches in New Hampshire. 



Formal communications: J. S. Gutsell, Use of selective screens 

 in studies of oyster larvae; T. S. Palmer, The discoverer of the 

 toothed birds of Kansas; Paul Bartsch, Results of Cerion breeding. 



November 1, 1919— 600th Meeting. 2 



President Smith presided; 55 persons present. 



New members elected: Federated Malay States Museums; 

 Ellsworth Killip. 



Informal communications: H. M. Smith, An announcement of 

 the unveiling of a monument to Surgeon-General George Miller 

 Sternberg, who was President of this Society in 1895 and 1896; 

 T. S. Palmer, (1) Notice of the forthcoming meeting of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union in New York; (2) Note on the 

 grave of Dr. David Hosack, in Marble Cemetery, New York; 

 (3) Note on the marking of the grave of Rafinesque in Phila- 

 delphia; C. W. Stiles, (1) Note on the grave of Dr. E. A. De 

 Schweinitz in Winston-Salem, N. C. ; (2) Note on the occurrence 

 of the manatee (Trichechus manatus) near Wilmington, N. C; 



lAbstract in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 9, pp. 656, 657, December 19, 1919. 

 2 Abstract in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. vol. 9, pp. 657-659, December 19, 1919. 



