Proceedings. xv 



titled Bird Banding by Systematic Trapping, by S. Prentiss 

 Baldwin; H. M. Smith, Note on a new nesting place for swans; 

 T. S. Palmer, (1) Note on the present status of Osborn's Caribou; 

 (2) Exhibition of a copy of a new journal, Journal of the Wild 

 Bird Investigation Society; (3) Note on a list of the mammals 

 of Siam, b}^ Nils Gjddenstolpe. 



Formal communications: V. Bailey, The Bean Mouse of Lewis 

 and Clark, Maximilian and others, illustrated by living speci- 

 mens of this and other small rodents of North Dakota; A. D. 

 Hopkins, The Bio-Climatic Law. 



December 13, 1919— 603d Meeting. 1 

 Fortieth Annual Meeting. 



President H. M. Smith presided; 21 persons present. 



The regular order was suspended, and Dr. T. S. Palmer pre- 

 sented Mr. W. L. Sclater of London, Editor of the Ibis, a Re- 

 corder of the Zoological Record, and a prime mover in behalf 

 of the "Systema Avium." Mr. Sclater addressed the Society 

 upon the need for an authoritative list of birds, and also upon 

 the difficulties encountered during the war in editing the Zoo- 

 logical Record. 



The regular order being resumed, Annual reports of Officers 

 and Committees were received. 



The officers elected for the year 1920 were: 



President: A. D. Hopkins. 



Vice-Presidents: Ned Hollister, Vernon Bailey, A. S. Hitch- 

 cock, J. W. Gidley. 



Recording Secretary: A. A. Doolittle. 



Corresponding Secretary: Alexander Wetmore. 



Treasurer: Ned Dearborn. 



Members of the Council: William Palmer, H. C. Oberholser, 

 E. A. Goldman, H. H. T. Jackson, S. A. Rohwer. 



President A. D. Hopkins was nominated as one of the Vice- 

 Presidents of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 



The appointment of the Standing Committees for the year 

 1920 was deferred. 



lAbstract in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 10, pp. 146, 147, March 4, 1920. 



