Proceedings. xv 



were read, and officers for the ensuing year elected as follows: 



President: F. V. Coville. 



Vice-presidents: Wm. H. Ashmead, C. W. Stiles, B. W. 

 Evermann, F. A. Lucas. 



Recording Secretary: H. J. Webber. 



Corresponding Secretary: T. W. Stanton. 



Treasurer: F. H. Knowlton. 



Members of the Council: T. S. Palmer, C. L. Marlatt, A. F. 

 Woods, C. L. Pollard, M. B. Waite. 



The following standing committees were appointed by the 

 President: 



On Communications : F. A. Lucas, B. W. Evermann, A. F. 

 Woods, V. K. Chesnut, and W. li. Osgood. 



On PiihUcations: F. H. Knowlton, T. S. Palmer, and C. L. 

 Pollard. 



January 13, 1900— 316th Meeting. 



Vice-president Lucas in the chair and .56 persons present. 



W. R. Maxon called attention to an interesting bifurcation 

 in a flight feather of the peacock. 



William Palmer exhibited specimens of various fern fronds 

 showing abnormal bifurcations. 



W. H. Seaman mentioned a case of the bifurcation of the 

 fourth rib in man. 



F. A. Lucas spoke of the common occurrence of such bifur- 

 cations in animals. 



II. J. Webber called attention to the similar bifurcations in 

 the trunk of 8ahal ixihnetto, three cases having been ob- 

 served in Florida. One specimen of the same palm had been 

 observed with three and one with four branches in the trunk; 

 but such branching, is very rare. 



The following communications were presented: 



Vernon Bailey: Where the Grebe Skins come from.* 



J. W. Daniel, Jr. : Zoological Collecting in Cuba. 



William Palmer: The ferns of the Lower Shenandoah Valley. 



E. L. Morris: A Revision of the Species of Plantago com- 

 monly referred to P. patagonica. f 



*Bird Lore II, p. 34. February, 1900. 

 fBull. Terr. Bot. Club. 27: 105-109. 1900. 



