XLII BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



The following communications were made : 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam. Description of a new Species of 

 Striped Squirrel, Tamias macrorhabdotes, from Cali- 

 fornia ;* and Description of a new Sub-Species of the 

 Common Eastern Chipmunk, Tamias striatus LYSTERi.f 



Mr. F. H. Knowlton, The Multiplication in the Gynoe- 

 cium of Datura Stramonium. 



Prof. O. T. Mason, Mutilations of the Human Body, 

 Considered Ethnically. 



Eighty-Seventh Meeting, January 9, 1886. 



The President occupied the chair, and twelve members were 

 present. 



This meeting was called as the annual meeting for the election 

 of officers, but, on account of the small number of members 

 present, due to very inclement weather, it was voted to defer the 

 election to the next regular meeting-day. 



Eighty-Eighth Meeting, January 23, 18S6. 

 (Sixth Annual Meeting). 



The President occupied the chair, and twenty-eight members 

 were present. 



The following board of officers was elected for the ensuing 

 year : 



President — Mr. G. Brown Goode. 



Vice-Presidents— -Mr. William H. Dall, Prof. Charles V. 

 Riley, Prof. Lester F. Ward, Dr. Frank Baker. 



Secretaries — Mr. Richard Rathbun, Dr. C. Hart Merriam. 



Treasurer — Mr! Frederick W. True. 



Additional Members of the Council — Mr. Romyn Hitchcock, 

 Mr. Charles D. Walcott, Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, Prof. Otis T. 

 Mason, Dr. George Vasey. 



* 1886. Proc. Biological Society, iii, pp. 25-28. 



f 1S86. Merriam, C. Hart, M. D. Description of a Neiv Subspecies 

 of the Common Eastern Chipmunk. <Am. Nat., xx, pp. 236-242. 



