viii The Biological Society of Washington. 



February 7, 1903 — 366th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 37 persons present. 

 The following communications were presented : 



Vernon Bailey : The Goodnight Herd of Buffaloes and Cataloes in Texas.* 

 T. H. Kearney : Further Observations on the Effect upon Seedlings of 

 Sodium and Magnesium. 

 Frank Bond : Irrigation Methods and Machinery. 



February 21, 1903 — 367th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 34 persons present. 



Carleton R. Ball exhibited specimens of 5 species of grasses of the genus 

 Elymus, illustrating differences between those grown in open and in shady 

 places. 



The following communications were presented : 



D. E. Salmon : The Recent Outbreak of the Foot and Mouth Disease in 

 New England.f 



H. J. Webber: Egyptian Cotton in the United States. J 



W. E. Safford : The Fauna of the Island of Guam.? 



March 7, 1903 — 368th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 42 persons present. 



F. A. Lucas exhibited lantern slides showing the famous fossil-bearing 

 quarries of Solenhofen, Bavaria, and also views of colonies of iguanas on 

 the Galapagos Islands. 

 ' The following communications were presented : 



F. W. True: Attitudes and Movements of Living Whales. || 



O. F. Cook : Biological Notes from Liberia. 



March 21, 1903 — 36gth Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 31 persons present. 



T. D. A. Cockerell exhibited specimens of cockleburs intermediate be- 

 tween Xanthium commune and Xanthium commune intermedium. 



B. W. Evermann spoke of shad from Pensacola, Florida, found to be 

 identical with the Alabama shad. 



The following communications were presented : 



T. S. Palmer : The Preservation of Pelican Island as a Breeding Ground 

 for Birds. 



Walter H. Evans: The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



Vernon Bailey : Desert Life of Western Texas. 



Paul Bartsch : Notes on the Herons of the District of Columbia.^ 



* Forest and Stream, LX, p. 325, Apr. 25, 1903. 



t 19th Ann. Rept. Bur. Anim. Industry, U. S. Dept. Agric, pp. 391H108, 1903. 



X Trans. New Eng. Cotton Manuf. Assoc, No. 74, pp. 202-216, 1903 ; Proc. 7th Ann. 

 Conven. So. Cotton Spinners' Assoc, pp. 127-141, 1903. 



I Birds of the Marianne Ids., The Osprey, N. S., I, pp. 39-42, March, 1902 ; pp. 65-70, 

 April, 1902. 



|| Smithsonian Misc. Col., XLV (quarterly issue), pp. 91-94, pis. xxiv-xxvi, Dec. 9, 1903. 



\ Smithsonian Misc. Col., XLV (quarterly issue), pp. 104-111, Dec. 9, 1903. 



