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BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



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 Ryder on development of the sunfish, Mola ....xxix 

 Ryder on origin of flukes of cetaceans and sire- 

 Mans xxxiv 



Salmon, D. E.. on our invisible enemies, the 



plagues of animal life •" xxxiv 



Salmon, D. E., and Smith, T., on immunity 



from contagious diseases 29 



Sanitary ignorance xxxiv 



Schuyler, E., on the machinery of our foreign 



service xxxiv 



Seaman, W. H., on the Japanese plum xxxvii 



Secretaries, duties of '. xxvi 



Sections, formation of xxvi 



Seventeen-year locust, occurrence of, in Vir- 

 ginia xxxi 



Shad fishery, fish-culture a necessity for main- 

 taining the xxxix 



Shedding of the bill in auks xxxi 



Sheepshead xxxvii 



Shipworm, Teredo navalis xxxvii 



Sirenians, origin of flukes of xxxiv 



Smith, S., on recent explorations of steamer 



Albatross xxxi 



Smith, T., on Koch's method of isolating and 



cultivating bacteria xxxvii 



Smith on storing cover-glasses xli 



(See Salmon, D. E.) 29 



Society of Naturalists of E. U. S., annual meet- 

 ing of xxxii 



Specimen case, new metal xl 



Specimen tubes, method of mounting xli 



Spindalis benedicti, n. s 22 



Squirrel, on a new striped xlii, 25 



Stejneger, L,., on the shedding of the bill in 



auks xxxi 



Sternberg, G. M., on germs and germicides. ..xxxiv 



Sunfish, development of xxix 



Surrender of Cornwallis, results in England of 

 the xxxiv 



Tamias macrorhabdotes, u. s xlii, 25 



Tamias striatus lysteri, n. sub-s xlii 



Taylor, T., on how to distinguish between ani- 

 mal and vegetable fats xxxix 



Taylor on the white rust of cabbages xxxviii 



Treasurer, duties of xxvi 



Trepanning, post-mortem xxxviii 



Trilobites, loss of vital force in xli 



Troglodytes beani, n. s 21 



True, F. W., on a male Guereza monkey xxxviii 



True on a new species of porpoise, Phocaena 

 Dalli xxxii 



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True on a spotted dolphin xl 



True on change of meeting day xxxiv 



True on Ornithorhynchus, a mammal that 



lays eggs xxxiv 



True on the American pocket rats xli 



True on the capture of right whales xxxv 



True on the habits of the bottle-nose dolphin.. ..xxx 

 Turbinella, zoological position of xxix 



V. 



Vasey, G., on the grasses of the arid plains xxxi 



Vegetable cells xxxvii 



Vice-presidents, duties of xxvi 



Vireo bairdi, n. s 22 



Vireosylvia einerea, n. s 22 



Vital force, loss of, in trilobites xli 



w. 



Walcott, C. D., on loss of vital force in trilo- 

 bites xli 



Walcott on searching for the first forms of 



life xxxiv 



Walcott on the oldest known fauna on the 



American continent xxxi 



Ward, L. F., on additions to the flora of Wash- 

 ington xxxi 



Ward on occurrence of the seventeen year 



locust in Virginia xxxi 



Ward on phyllotaxyof Paulowniaimperialis..xxxvi 

 Ward on recent flowering of the. ginkgo tree, 



xxxviii 



Washington, additions to flora of xxxi, 106 



Washington, changes of nomenclature in flora 



of 127 



Washington, Hepaticse of 110, 116 



Washington, lichens of 118 



Washington, musci of 110, 111 



Washington, new localities for rare species of 



plants 129 



Washington, recent flowering of ginkgo tree 



in xxxix 



Washington, species excluded from flora of 133 



Welling. J. C, on oldest history in the light of 



newest science xxxiv 



Willows, Alaskan xxxvii 



White, C. A., on the application of biology 



to geological history xxxiii, 1 



White on use of gutta percha in making casts 



of fossils xxxv 



White on vegetable cells xxxvii 



White rust of cabbages xxxviii 



Wortman, J. L., on a method of exhibiting 



relations of bones of the skull xxxv 



Wortman on molar teeth of caruivora xxxviii 



