XXXTI BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



communication. Prof. Ward announced that the names of iS 

 plants had heen added to the Flora Columbiana during the past 

 year, some of these having been new discoveries, and others 

 based upon earlier observations, to which his attention had first 

 been called during 18S4. 



Seventieth Meeting, December 27, 1S84. 



The President occupied the chair, and thirty members were 

 present. 



Dr. Charles Sedgwick Minot, Secretary of the Society of Nat- 

 uralists of the Eastern United States, made a statement concern- 

 ing the annual meeting of that Society, to be held in Washington, 

 on Monday and Tuesday of the following week. 



Prof. R. E. C. Stearns. Dr. H. G. Bever, and Mr. Benjamin 

 Miller were appointed a committee to audit the accounts of the 

 Treasurer, on account of his expected absence from the city after 

 January I. 



Mr. F. W. True read a paper respecting A New Species of 

 Porpoise, Phoc.ena Dalli, from Alaska.* 



Mr. John A. Rvder made a communication upon The De- 

 velopment of the Fin-Rays in Fishes. f 



Mr. John Murdoch exhibited A Collection of Marine In- 

 vertebrates OBTAINED BY LlEUT. A. W. GrEELY. AT CAMP 



Clay, Cape Sabine, Smith Sound. J all of which were well 

 known Arctic forms. 



Mr. G. Brown Goode spoke upon The Natural History 

 Features at the World's Exposition at New Orleans. 



Seventy-First Meeting, January 10, 1885. 

 (Fifth Annual Meeting). 



The President occupied the chair, and thirty-nine members 

 were present. 



* 1885. True, Frederick W. On a New Species of Porpoise, Phoctena 

 Dalit, from Alaska. <Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, pp. 95-98, pis. ii-v. 



t 1885. Ryder, John A. The Development of the Rays of Osseous 

 Fishes. <Am. Naturalist, Feb., pp. 200-204. 



J Abstract in The Pastime, Mir shington, vol. iii, No. 7, p. 11, 1885. 



