X The Ijiidoglcal Society of WdsliiiK/fon. 



October 19, 1901 — 341st Meeting. 



Vice Pri'sideiit Ashmead iu the chair and :^1 persons present. 

 The following communications were presented: 

 C. W. Stiles: The Recent International Zoological Congress. 

 W. H. Ashmead: An Entomologist in the Sandwich Islands. 

 Theo. Gill: Some Difficulties of Nomenclature at the Zoolog- 

 ical Congress. 



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November 2, 1901 — 342d Meeting. 



The President in the cliair and 30 persons present: 



H. J. Webber exhibited a diseased pineapple and discussed 



the cause of the Cv)ndition. 



The following communications were presented: 

 Charles Louis Pollard: Notes on a Trip to Mount Mitchell. 

 H. J. Webber: A Cowpea Resistant to Root Knot Worm.* 

 Frederick Y. Coville: Exhibition of Specimens of Alaskan 



Willows. 



M. A. Carleton: Characteristics and Distribution of Xero- 



phytic Wheats, f 



November 16, 1901 — 343d Meeting. 



The President in the cliaii- and :^8 persons pi-esent. 



C. P. Hartley exhibited some malformed ears of corn grown 

 from seed taken from ears similarly abnormal. 



H. E. Van Deman exhibited a specimen of the ripe fruit of 

 guava grown in Florida. ' 



L. (). Howard announced that he had just learned through a 

 letter from C. L. Marlatt that the original habitat of the San 

 Jose scale insect had been found to be in China. 



The following communications were presented: 



H. G. Dyar: Notes on Mosquito Larvae. 



Vernon Bailey: The Little Deer of the Chisos Mountains, 

 Texas, with exhiliition of spe(umens. 



Barton W. Evermann: Birds in the Dry Season. 



C. B. Simpson: Some Observations on Jack Rabbits. 



"To be ])iiblislie(l as a Bulletin of the Bureau of Plant Indvistry, U. S. 

 Depl. Afi'ric. 



fJUill. No. :{, Bureau PI. hul., U. S. Dept. A-rie., under llie title, 

 Macaroni Wheats. 



