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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



PROCEEDINGS. 



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

 days, at 8 p. m. 



January 11, 1919— 589th Meeting. 1 



Lecture Hall of the Carnegie Institution. 



President Hugh M. Smith presided; 26 persons present. 



New members elected, George Willett, Walter M. Giffard. 



The deaths of Dr. Howard E. Ames and of Dr. W. F. Foster 

 were announced. 



President Smith announced the appointment to Standing 

 Committees; on the Committee on Communications, A. S. 

 Hitchcock, L. O. Howard, Alexander Wetmore, R. E. Coker 

 and J. W. Gidley. On the Committee on Publications, C. W. 

 Richmond, J. H. Riley, Ned Dearborn, W. L. McAtee. 



Informal communications: A. S. Hitchcock, Note on the pro- 

 posed list of generic names of plants, to be prepared by the 

 Botanical Society of America; Hugh M. Smith, Note on the 

 unusual blossoming of spring flowers; W. L. McAtee, Note on 

 the early blossoming of spring flowers and the first blossoming 

 of autumn flowers; L. 0. Howard, Note on Prof. L. F. Ward's 

 publication on blossoming out of season. 



Formal communications: J. B. Norton, A new and easy way 

 to recognize our local Asters; Lyman Carrier, Dr. John Mitchell 

 as an early naturalist and historian; J. W. Gidley, The signifi- 

 cance of the divergence of the first digit in the primitive mamma- 

 lian foot; A. S. Hitchcock, A peculiar species of Lasiacis. 



January 25, 1919— 590th Meeting. 2 



Auditorium of the New National Museum. 



President Hugh M. Smith presided; 29 persons present. 



i Abstract in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 9, pp. 175, 176, March 19, 1919. 

 2Abstract in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 9, pp. 176, 177, March 19, 1919. 



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