XL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



surfaces of a set of Haidi gambling sticks, the carvings on which 

 were illustrative of Haidi mvthology. 



Eighty-Third Meeting, November 14, 1885. 



The President occupied the chair, and twenty-six members 

 were present. 



Air. Richard Rathbun read a paper entitled Remarks on the 

 Wood's Holl Station of the U. S. Fish Commission, in which 

 he described the quarters recently constructed for the purposes of 

 fish culture and investigation. 



Dr. W. S. Barnard exhibited A New Style of Metal Case 

 for Mounting Natural History Specimens. 



The cases are of different shapes and sizes, and without sharp 

 angles to give greater strength. They are intended for both 

 dry and fluid preparations, and may have a glass face on one side. 

 They are so constructed as to receive a tablet on which the speci- 

 mens may be mounted. The lid has a groove with soft packing, 

 to prevent evaporation or the entrance of museum pests. 



Mr. John A. Ryder described A New and Practical System 

 of Raising Seed Oysters.* 



Mr. F. W. True made a communication On a Spotted 

 Dolphin Apparently Identical with Prodelphinus doris, 

 Gray, J basing his remarks upon a specimen recently taken oft' 

 Cape Hatteras by the Fish Commission Steamer Albatross . 



Eighty-Fourth Meeting, November 28, 1885. 



The President occupied the chair, and thirty-six members were 

 present. 



Letters were read from the Secretaries of the Philosophical So- 

 ciety and the Chemical Society, inviting the members of the 

 Biological Society to attend the next meetings of those Societies, 

 at which presidential addresses would be delivered. 



* 1SS5. Forest and Stream, xxv, No. 13, Oct. 22, pp. 249-250. Science, 

 Nov. 2S. 



t True, Frederick W. On a Spotted Dolphin Apparently Identical 

 with the Prodelphinus doris of Gray- <Rept. U. S. National Museum 

 for 18S4, pp. 3 J 7-3 2 4- 



