Vol. XXVI, pp. vii-xii. February 2, 1914. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



PROCEEDINGS. 



The Society meets in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club 

 on alternate Saturdays at 8 P. M. 



January 11, 1913— 505th Meeting. 



President E. W. Nelson in the chair and 54 persons present. 



The President appointed the following standing committees: 



On Communications — Paul Bartsch, Edwin Kirk, Lewis Rad- 

 cliffc, A. D. Hopkins, C. V. Piper. 



On Publications— W. P. Hay, N. Hollister, J. \V. Gidley. 



C. V. Piper exhibited a wooden vase covered with a veneer 

 of 'silkwood." This wood is cut from a large Polyporus 

 fungus. 



A. S. Hitchcock reported his recent return from a successful 

 collecting trip in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago. 



President Nelson reported a recent trip after mammals to the 

 Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 



The following communications were presented: 

 'The Rediscovery of (Enothera grandiflora ' '' : S. M. Tracy. 

 'The Problem of the Identity of (Enothera Lamarckiana" : 

 H. H. Bartlett. 



'Saw-flies in their Relation to Forestry ": S. A. Rohwer. 



January 25, 1913 - 506th Meeting. 



President Nelson in the chair and 47 persons present. 

 Paul Bartsch exhibited a small photographic camera with 

 specimens of its work and enlargements. 



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