Proceedings. ix 



March 22, 1913-5lOth Meeting. 



Vice-President Bartsch in the chair and 52 persons present. 



Barton \Y. Evermann reported the recent executive order of 

 President Taft setting apart the Aleutian Islands as a wild 

 animal and bird reservation. 



A. 1). Hopkins announced the recent organization of 'The 

 Society for the Advancement of Forest Entomology in America." 



The following communications were presented: 

 ' Recent Progress in the Study and Culture of the Common 

 Eel" : Hugh M. Smith. 



"Tree Shrews" : Marcus W. Lyon, Jr.* 



April 5, 1913— 511th Meeting. 



President Nelson in the chair and 43 persons present. 



Paul Bartsch reported observations on the notes of the 

 common toads of this vicinity — Bvfo americana and Bvfo fowleri. 



Henry Talbott made some remarks on the probable agency of 

 man in the dispersion of animals during geologic history. 



The following communications were presented: 

 'A Commercial Aspect of Paleontology, by a Layman": 

 Henry Talbott. 



' Zoological Results of the Danish Expedition to Northeast 

 Greenland" : Fritz Johansen. 



April 19, 1913— 512th Meeting. 



Vice-President Hay in the chair and 30 persons present. 



Henry Talbott exhibited teeth of the fossil shark Carcharodon 

 megalodon from South Carolina. 



W . W. Cooke made some remarks on the spring migration 

 of birds during the present season. 



The following communication was presented: 

 ' Stock Poisoning by Larkspur " : CD. Marsh. 



May 5, 1913— 513th Meeting. 



President Nelson in the chair and 50 persons present. 



Hugh M. Smith exhibited pictures of a whale shark captured 



in Florida waters during the present year. 



* Abstract of a papei in Proc lings of U.S. Nat. Museum, Vol. 15, pp. 1-188,11 



plat.-. 1913. 



