Proceedings. xiii 



October 21, 1916— 558th Meeting.* 



President Hay in the chair and 50 persons present. 



Mr. A. L. Quaintance called attention to a new peach pest, 

 giving lantern slide views of the insect and its work. 



Dr. C. W. Stiles commented on zoological nomenclature, also 

 on recent cases in which trichina had figured in lawsuits: 



Dr. L. O. Howard cited an instance in which a cockroach 

 was figuring in a lawsuit. 



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



" Mollusk Collecting in the Philippines " ; Paul Bartsch. 



November 4, 1916— 559th Meeting.! 



President Hay in the chair and 60 persons present. 



Dr. R. W. Shufeldt exhibited a specimen of Japanese giant 

 salamander. 



The regular program consisted of four papers, as follows: 



"A Review of Recent Work on the House-fly"; R. H. 

 Hutchison . 



"Recent Spread of the Cotton Boll Weevil"; W. Dwight 

 Pierce. 



' ' Remarks on Entomological Inspection and Disinfection of 

 Products offered for Entry into the United States"; E. R. 

 Sasscer. 



"An Outline of the Glow-worms of the American Family 

 Phengodidse " ; H. S. Barber. 



November 18, 1916 — 560th Meeting. + 



President Hay in the chair and 86 persons present. 



Dr. O. P. Hay exhibited a cervical vertebra of an extinct 

 Florida deer. 



Dr. Paul Bartsch called attention to a hybrid duck seen in 

 the markets. 



The regular program consisted of two communications, as 

 follows: 



" Forests of Panama"; H. Pittier. 



"Scientific Photography in the Study of Insects"; J. H. 

 Paine. 



•Abstracts in Science, N. S., Vol. 44, pp. 896-897, December 22, 1916. 

 t Abstracts in Science, N. S.. Vol. 44, pp. 897-898, December 22, 1916. 

 X Abstracts in Science, N. S., Vol. 4.5, p. 72, January 19, 1917. 



