44 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



Darwin's Coral Island Studies Richard Rathbun.* 



Darwin's Investigations on the Relation 



of Plants and Insects Charles V. Riley. 



Darwin as a Botanist Lester F. Ward. 



Darwin on Emotional Expression Frank Baker. 



A Darwinian Bibliography Frederick W. True. 



A Portrait of Darwin Henry Uike. 



The addresses delivered on this occasion are printed in full in the 

 appendix. 



Thirty-First Meeting, May 26, 1882. 



The President occupied the chair. Thirty-five members were 

 present. 



Mr. \Vm. H. Dall made an appeal for aid in the exploration of 

 the molluscan fauna of the District of Columbia. 



Dr. Tarleton H. Bean exhibited a specimen of a rare arctic bird, 

 the Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Eurynorhynchits pygmcBus, obtained by 

 him on the coast of Siberia. f 



Dr. M. G. Ellzey made a brief communication upon the natural 

 history of mules. 



The Society ratified the action of the council in voting that 

 the proceedings of the Society, together with the addresses at the 

 Darwin Memorial Meeting, should be printed, and that the funds 

 of the Society now in the treasury should be used for that purpose. A 

 resolution to the effect that women should be admitted to member- 

 ship in the Society was referred to a committee consisting of Gen. 

 William Birrey, Messrs. Dall and Goode, and Doctors Prentiss and 

 Kidder. 



The Society then adjourned to meet in October. 



* Omitted on account of the illness of Mr, Rathbun. 



f 18S2. Bean, Tarleton H. Notes on Bh-ds collected during the sum- 

 mer of i83o, in Alaska and Siberia. <^Proc. U. S. Mus., V, 1882, pp. 

 1 44 -I- {E. pygmaus,'^. \i^^.) 



AIjo, 1 83 1. Bean, Tarleton H. Our unique Spoon-billed Sandpiper. 

 <Forest and Stream, XVI, April 12, 1881. 



