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The following communications were presented: 

 ' The Most Promising Animals for Fur-Farming ": Vernon 

 Bailey. 



Fisheries in Alaska": John Cobb. 



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February 17, 1912— 494th Meeting. 



Vice-President A. D. Hopkins in the chair and 55 persons 

 present. 



E. M. Kindle exhibited lantern slides showing impressions 

 made hy tadpoles in the ooze of shallow ponds and suggesting 

 that similar markings found in rocks had probably a like 

 origin. 



The following communications were presented: 

 ' Notes on Deep Sea Fishes from the Albatross Philippine 

 Cruise": Hugh M. Smith and Lewis Radeliffe. 



" Botanizing in Panama": A. S. Hitchcock. 



March 2, 1912— 495th Meeting. 

 President E. W. Nelson in the chair and 42 persons present. 

 A. B. Baker read abstracts from a letter written by the 

 Director of the Transvaal Zoological Gardens at Pretoria, refer- 

 ring to some prominent animals of the South African fauna. 

 The following communications were presented: 

 ' The Story of Evolution as Revealed by a Scolytid Beetle" : 

 A. D. Hopkins. 



' Habitat, Coloration and Evolution as shown by Birds on a 

 Javan Mountain": Win. Palmer. 



March 16, 1912 -496th Meeting. 



President Nelson in the chair and 42 persons present. 



Hugh M. Smith exhibited lantern slide pictures of a bluebird 

 frozen fast in the opening of a hollow log. 



T. S. Palmer spoke of recent distribution of elks from Jackson 

 Hole and elsewhere to various State and National game pre- 

 serves. 



The following communications were presented: 

 ' Translations from Torquemada's ' Monarquia Indiana ' ": 

 E. W. Nelson. 



" The Ear-flower of the Aztecs ": W. E. Safford. 

 1 The Wilting Coefficient in the Study of Plant Associa- 

 tions ": H. L. Shantz and L. J. Briggs. 



