Proceedi)igs. xiii 



Albert F. Woods: Additional Notes on the Spot Disease of 

 Carnations.* 



November 9, 1899—31 ith Meeting. 



The President in tlie chair and 26 persons present. 



The following communications were presented: 



L. O. Howard: Preliminary Notice of an Investigation of 



the Insect Fauna of Human Excrement, f 



W. H. Dall: Notes on Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands. J 

 G. K. Gilbert: The Submerged Forests of the Columbia 



River. . 



November 18, 1899 -312th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 31) persons present. 



H. J. Webber called attention to the morphologically com- 

 pound nature of the leaves of Ampelopsis tricuspidata and ex- 

 hibited specimens collected by Doctor Evans. 



The following communications were presented: 



F. A. Lucas: Letter from H. II. Field concerning the Con- 

 cilium Bibliographicum and the })roposed Catalogue of the 

 Royal Society. 



F. V. Coville: The Botanical Explorations of Thomas Nut- 

 tall in California. § 



Barton W. Evermann: A Physical and Biological Survey of 

 Lake Maxinkuckee. 



December 2, 1899— 313th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 31 persons pl-esent. 



W. H. Dall exhibited specimens of Barringtonia speciosa 

 and called attention to the practice of stupifying the fish by 

 this so called fish poison by throwing the bruised kernels into 

 small ponds, etc. | 



Walter Evans stated that trifoliate and tripartite grape leaves 



*Bull. No. 19, Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology U. S. 

 Dept. of Agr. 1900. 

 fProc. Wash. Acad. Sci. II, pp. 541-603. 2 pi. and 22 iigs. 

 ^Nation LXIX, No. 1792, pp. 331-333, Nov. 2, 1899. 

 gProc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XIII, pp. 109-121, Dec. 30, 1899. 

 8 Nation LXIX, p. 331. 



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