PROCEEDINGS. XIX 



summer of 1 887, by ]Mr. Lucas with the Fish Commission schooner 

 Grampus. 



Air. A. A. Crozier, under the title. Some Botanical Terms, 

 referred to the ambiguity attending the use of the words " sinis- 

 trorse " and •' dextrorse." as applied to twining plants. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam gave an account of the Fauxa and Flora 

 OF THE Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and 

 Tennessee. 



One Hundred and Fourteenth Meeting, November 5, 18S7. 



The President in the chair, and thirty-six persons present. 



Mr. John B. Smith read a paper on Some Geographical Va- 

 riations OF Insects, with special reference to local variations 

 in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. 



Dr. T. H. Bean presented a communication respecting The 

 Young Forms of Some of Our Food Fishes, and exhibited 

 .alcoholic specimens of the same. 



Mr. N. P. Scudder explained The Period of Gestation in 

 the Common Caged Whitp: Mouse. 



Mr. H. E. Van Diemen exhibited specimens of the fruit and 

 colored drawings of the foliage, flow^ers, and fruit of The Jap- 

 anese Persimmon, Diospyros kaki. 



Prof. Theodore Gill described the characteristics of The Fish 

 Fauna of the South Temperate or Notalian Realm. 



One Hundred and Fifteenth Meeting. Nov. 19, 1887. 



Prof. Ward, Vice-President, in the chair, and thirty-two per- 

 sons present. 



Col. Marshall McDonald joresented an Explanation of Past 

 Failures in the Culture of the Salmonid.^. 



Mr. Walter B. Barrows read a paper entitled Freshet Notes 

 ON THE Rio Uruguay, South America. 



Dr. T. H. Bean described A New Species of Thyrsitops 



