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ing followed by an illustrated lecture on " Impressions in Arizona ", 

 by Mr. Arthur C. Bent, On the afternoon of March 27, the audi- 

 torium was again used by the Society when a 5-reel film entitled 

 "As a Bird of Passage in Africa", produced by Mr. Bengt Berg, 

 Swedish traveler and explorer, w^as presented by the author. The 

 picture showed flocks of thousands of migratory European birds 

 associating with the native birds on the White Nile in Africa. 



"John Burroughs" was the subject of an interesting address by 

 Dr. Clara Barrus on the afternoon of April 16, illustrated by colored 

 slides of the naturalist's home, his haunts, etc. 



The Washington, D. C, Chapter of the Wild Flower Preservation 

 Society of America held its annual meeting in committee room 42-3 

 on January 31, when Mrs. C. D. Walcott gave an illustrated address 

 on wild flowers. The Society also arranged a series of 4 public 

 lectures on Wednesday evenings, all in the committee room except 

 the third. These were as follows: March 21, "Palms in Southern 

 Florida", by Dr. W. E. Safford; March 26, "Water Lillies", by 

 Mr. Peter Bisset; April 4, National forests and parks — motion pic- 

 tures and lantern slides; April 11, "Wild flowers of the Southern 

 Coastal Plain ", by Dr. Edgar T. Wherry. 



The Entomological Society of Washington as usual met regu- 

 larly in Room 42-3 on the first Thursday of the month from October 

 to June, the subjects and speakers at these meetings and at a second 

 meeting in November being as follows : October 5, " Life histories 

 and habits of the solitary wasp ", by Mr. Edward G. Reinhardt ; 

 November 2, " South African Republic ", by Prof. C. P. Lounsberry, 

 and " Luminosity of insects ", by Prof. Ulrich Dahlgren ; November 

 8, " Resp)iration of insects ", by Dr. August Krogh ; December 7, 

 annual meeting with election of officers and addresses by Dr. J. M. 

 Aldrich and Dr. A. G. Boving; January 4, "A manuscript auto- 

 biography of S. W. Williston", by Dr. J. M. Aldrich; February 1, 

 "A trip into Mexico for parasites of the bean leaf beetle ", by Mr. 

 E. G. Smith; March 1, "The evolution of the fly", by Mr. R. E. 

 Snodgrass, and " Two recent papers on Microlepidoptera ", by Mr. 

 August Busck ; April 5, " The house fly plague in the American Ex- 

 peditionary Forces ", by Mr. Perry Simmons, and " Biology of tiger 

 beetles", by Mr. C. C. Hamilton; May 3, " Lisect diseases", by Dr. 

 G. F. White, and "Unique egg laying apparatus in the tachinid 

 fly ", by Dr. J. M. Aldrich. 



The Shakespeare Society of Washington gave a dramatic recital 

 on November 21 — Antony and Cleopatra — to an appreciative audi- 

 ence. And on November 24 the auditorium was the scene of an illus- 

 trated lecture by Col. William K. Nay lor, of the Army War College 



