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PROCEEDINGS 



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BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



PROCEEDINGS. s^ 



The Society meets in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club 

 on alternate Saturdays at 8 p. m. 



January 15, 1916— 548th Meeting.* 



President \V. P. Hay in the chair and 40 persons present. 

 Mr. Wm. Palmer exhibited a specimen of seahorse and the 

 collector's sketch of a pipefish. 



The regular program consisted of a single paper, as follows: 

 " Notes on Labrador Birds " ; VV. W. Cooke. 



January 29, 1916— 549th Meeting.-f 



President Hay in the chair and 30 persons present. 



Dr. L. 0. Howard spoke of some of the published anecdotes 

 regarding the entomologist General Dejean ; Doctor Howard also 

 exhibited a photographic lantern slide of Orsini's statue, 

 Proximus Tuus, representing a malarial stricken Italian peasant; 

 also a group of healthy children on the formerly malaria-infested 

 Roman Campagna. 



Dr. H. M. Smith called attention to the successful introduc- 

 tion of the tilefish into the markets, restaurants and homes of 

 the United States. 



Mr. Wm. Palmer exhibited several bones of extinct cetaceans. 



The regular program consisted of a single paper as follows : 



* ' Fur Farming in Alaska ' ' ; Ned Dearborn . 



♦Abstracts of papers in Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., Vol. 6, p. 104, February 19. 

 1916; and in Science, N. S., Vol. 43, p. 401. March 17. 1916. 



t Abstracts in Science, N. S.,Vol. 43, pp. 401-402, March 17,1916; and in Journ. Wash- 

 ington Acad. Sci., Vol. 6, p. 159, March 19,. 1916. 



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