Proceedings. ix 



April 4, igo3 — 370th Meeting. 



Vice-President Ashmead in the chair and 39 persons present. 



The following communications were presented : 



H. J. Webber : Bud Sports and Bud Variation in Breeding. 



R. H. True: The Manufacture of Tea in America. 



W. C. Kendall : The Fishes of the Rangely Lakes. 



April 18, 1903 — 371st Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 25 persons present. 



The following communications were presented : 



W. J. Spillman : Agrostological Problems in the United States. 



B. H. Dutcher: The Mammals of Mount Katahdin, Maine* 



V. K. Chesnut : Notes on the Dissemination of Sedum douglassi by 

 Proliferous Shoots. 



May 2, 1903 — 372nd Meeting. 



Vice-President Hay in the chair and 25 persons present. 

 The following communications were presented : 



F. V. Coville: Wocas: An Aboriginal Cereal (Nymphaea polysepala).f 

 J. W. T. Duvel : Vitality of Seeds, % 



G. H. Shull : Geographic Distribution of the Sugary Quillwort (Isoetes 

 saccharata). \ 



May 16, 1903 — 373rd Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 30 persons present. 



F. V. Coville exhibited a monstrous specimen of the grape-hyacinth. 



Frank Baker announced that the collection at the National Zoological 

 Park had recently been increased by three specimens of the echidna and 

 by the birth of a tapir. 



The following communications were presented : 



C. W. Stiles : The New American Hook-worm and its Medical Im- 

 portance. || 



F. V. Coville : Location of the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carne- 

 gie Institution.* 7 



October 17, 1903 — 374th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 17 persons present. 



L. O. Howard spoke of the length of silk in single cocoons of the silk- 

 worm, stating that in 15 cocoons actually measured the length varied from 

 880 to 1,102 yards. 



* Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVI, pp. 63-72, May 29, 1903. 



t Ann. Rept. U. S. Nat. Museum for 1902, pp. 725-739, March, 1904. 



I To be published as a bulletin of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture. 



§ Botanical Gazette, XXXVI, pp. 187-202, Sept., 1903. 



|| Bull. No. 10, Hyg. Lab., TJ. S. Pub. Health and Marine Hosp. Serv., pp. 1-121, fig. 1-86, 

 1903. 



•J Carnegie Inst., Wash., Pub. No. 6, 1903. 



