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received at the National Museum, which had no mouth. The 

 fish, which had attained a weight of over one pound, must have 

 fed by means of the gill openings. "^ 



W. H. Dall called attention to the discovery by T. Wayland 

 Vaughaii of a fossil coral reef in Uecatur County, Georgia.* 



The following communications were presented: 



L. O. Howard: Insects Affecting Cotton. 



Henry James: Recent Progress in Forestry. 



M. W. Lyon: Notes on Venezuelan Zoology. 



F. A. Lucas: The Deposit of Mastodon Bones at Kimms- 

 wick, Missouri. 



November 17, 1900— 328th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 5V persons present. 



W. H. Dall spoke of a specimen of Chiton recently collected 

 by Mr. Hemphill near San Diego, California, which had only 

 six valves instead of the normal number eight. 



M. B. Waite exhibited an abnormal apple showing a combina- 

 tion of three more or less perfect fruits. The specimens came 

 from an orchard near Los Angeles, California, and the collector 

 stated that such abnormal fruits were of common occurrence, f 



The following communications were presented: 



C. W. Stiles: The Structure and Life History of the Para- 

 sites of Malaria. 



L. O. Howard: The Malaria Mosquitoes; Their Biology; 

 What has been done and What may be done to Exterminate 

 Them (illustrated with lantern slides). J 



December 1, 1900— 329th Meeting. 



Vice-president Lucas in the chair and 26 persons present. 

 The following communications were presented: 

 L. Stejneger: On Post-Pliocene Migration of Siberian Ani- 

 mals into Europe. 



Erwin F. Smith: Sugar Beets in New York and Michigan. 



*Science n. s., ii: 873. December 7, 1900. 



•j-Will be published in Rural New Yorker. 



|Bull. No. 25, New Series, Division of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agr. 



