Vol. XVIll, pp. vii-xii January 26, 1906 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



PROCEEDINGS. 



The [Society meets in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Clul) 

 on alternate Saturdays at 8 p. m. Brief notices of the meetings, 

 with abstracts of the papers, are published in Science. 



January 14, 1905— ^395th-Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 46 persons present. 



A. D. Hopkins exhibited fossil borings of cerambycid beetles. 



W. P. Hay noted that in modern literature Cffisalpino is 

 rightly credited with discovering the circulation of the blood. 



The following connnunications were presented : 



CO. Townsend: Distrilnition and Development of the Sugar 

 Beet Industry in the United States. 



A. C. Veatch: The Question of Origin of the Natural Mounds 

 of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. 



A. S. Hitchcock: The Twigs of Woody Plants with Deciduous 

 Tips. 



January 28, 1905 — 396th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 110 persons present. 

 The following communications were presented: 

 Ernest Thompson Seton : Life Histories of Some Rodents of 

 Manitoba; Life History of the Northern Coyote. 



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