XIV BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



Mr. Slid worth presented a communication on the Color 

 AND Odor of Flowers in Attracting Insects. Dis- 

 cussed by Messrs. Howard and Marlatt. 



Mr. Stedman exhibited and described a fine specimen illus- 

 trating the Embyro of a Chick with Two Protovertebr.'E. 



Dr. Merriam spoke of Distribution of Animal and 

 Vegetable Life. Discussed by Dr. Curtice and Messrs. 

 Waite, Test and Holzinger. 



One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Meeting, 

 March 21, 1891. 



Ex-President Ward in the chair, and twenty-eight members 

 present. 



Mr. W. A. Taylor was elected an active member. 



Dr. Dall presented a paper on the Age of the Peace 

 Creek Bone Beds in Florida.* 



Dr. Shufeldt read a communication on A Collection of 

 Fossil Birds from the Equus Beds of Oregon, t 



Mr. F. A. Lucas spoke of A Point in the Anatomy of 

 Hesperornis. 



Mr. F. H. Knowlton presented a communication entitled 

 What Are Cypress Knees ? Discussed by Prof. Ward and 

 Mr. R. L. Garner. 



One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Meeting. 

 April 4, 1891. 



Vice-President Walcott in the chair, and thirty-two mem- 

 bers present. 



Dr. Cornelius B. Boyle was elected an active member of the 

 Society. 



* Bulletin 84, U. S. Geol. Survey. (In press). 



t To be published in the Acad, of Nat. Sciences of Phila. Abstracts 

 <Amer. Nat. Sept. 1891, pp. 818-821. The Auk, Vol. viii, Oct., 1891, 

 PP- 365-368. 



