Vol. XII. pp. vii-xn December 30, 1898 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



PROCEEDINGS, 



The Society meets in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club 

 on alternate Saturdays at 8 p. m. Brief notices of the meetings, 

 with abstracts of communications, are published in Science. 



January 7, 1898— Special Meeting. 



The President, Dr. L. 0. Howard, delivered the annual address 

 at Columbian University on the topic, "The Gypsy Moth in 

 Massachusetts: A. Great Experiment in Economic Entomology.'* 



Januaiy 15, 1898 — 285th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and 51 persons present. 



('. Hart Merriam discussed a recently issued biography of 



Audubon. 



The program for the evening consisted of a symposium on 

 the topic. ' Recent Additions to our Knowledge of the Cell,' with 

 the following speakers: Frank Baker, D. G. Fairchild, H. J. 

 Webber, and W. T. Swingle. The communications were illus- 

 trated by diagrams and lantern slides. 



January 29, 1898— 236th Meeting, 



The President in the chair and 24 persons present. 

 The following communications were presented : 

 William Palmer: The Birds of the Pribilof Islands, f 



*Bull. No. 11, New Series, Division of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agri- 

 culture. 



t 'Avifauna of the Pribilof Islands,' to be published as a chapter in the 

 Report on the Fur Seal Island-, by David Starr Jordan, U. S. Treasury 

 Department. 



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