﻿298 
  journaiv 
  of 
  the 
  washington 
  academy 
  of 
  sciences 
  voi^. 
  12, 
  no. 
  12 
  

  

  634th 
  meeting 
  

  

  The 
  634th 
  meeting 
  was 
  held 
  at 
  the 
  Cosmos 
  Club 
  on 
  Feb. 
  4, 
  1922, 
  with 
  Pres- 
  

   ident 
  Bailey 
  in 
  the 
  chair 
  and 
  55 
  persons 
  present. 
  

  

  Under 
  Brief 
  notes, 
  Dr. 
  L. 
  O. 
  Howard 
  said 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  noticed 
  in 
  the 
  Annals 
  

   of 
  Tropical 
  Medicine 
  and 
  Parasitology 
  for 
  September 
  30 
  last 
  an 
  illustration 
  

   showing 
  a 
  botfly 
  larva 
  attached 
  to 
  a 
  tapeworm, 
  but 
  there 
  was 
  no 
  reference 
  to 
  

   it 
  in 
  the 
  text. 
  He 
  wrote 
  to 
  Professor 
  Robert 
  Newstead 
  of 
  the 
  Liverpool 
  

   School 
  of 
  Tropical 
  Medicine, 
  inquiring 
  about 
  the 
  specimen 
  figured 
  ; 
  Professor 
  

   Newstead 
  consulted 
  with 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  authors 
  of 
  the 
  paper, 
  Professor 
  YorkE, 
  

   who 
  stated 
  that 
  the 
  larvae 
  were 
  found 
  by 
  him 
  attached 
  to 
  tapeworms 
  in 
  the 
  

   stomach 
  of 
  the 
  zebra. 
  Professor 
  Yorke 
  gave 
  specimens 
  to 
  Professor 
  News- 
  

   tead, 
  who 
  with 
  great 
  generosity 
  forwarded 
  them 
  to 
  Dr. 
  Howard, 
  who 
  ex- 
  

   hibited 
  them 
  to 
  the 
  Society. 
  He 
  said 
  the 
  case, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  he 
  could 
  ascertain, 
  

   is 
  unique. 
  Dr. 
  B. 
  H. 
  Ransom 
  had 
  told 
  him 
  that 
  once, 
  when 
  collecting 
  in 
  

   Canada, 
  he 
  had 
  put 
  some 
  tapeworms 
  and 
  some 
  Oestrid 
  larvae 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  vial 
  

   and 
  had 
  later 
  found 
  that 
  the 
  Oestrids 
  had 
  destroyed 
  the 
  tapeworms 
  as 
  speci- 
  

   mens. 
  In 
  the 
  present 
  case, 
  however, 
  the 
  larvae 
  became 
  attached 
  to 
  the 
  

   tapeworms 
  in 
  the 
  zebra's 
  stomach 
  and 
  presumably 
  while 
  both 
  were 
  alive. 
  

   The 
  tapeworm 
  was 
  identified 
  as 
  Anoplocephala 
  rhodesiensis 
  and 
  the 
  bot 
  larva 
  

   as 
  Gastrophilus 
  pecorum 
  variety 
  zebra 
  Rod. 
  and 
  Beq. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  T. 
  S. 
  Palmer 
  reported 
  the 
  recent 
  census 
  of 
  the 
  quail 
  in 
  the 
  District 
  

   of 
  Columbia, 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  police, 
  who 
  had 
  fed 
  the 
  birds 
  during 
  the 
  period 
  of 
  

   deep 
  snow, 
  the 
  food 
  being 
  furnished 
  by 
  the 
  Audubon 
  Society. 
  The 
  census 
  

   showed 
  over 
  100 
  covies 
  in 
  the 
  District, 
  with 
  a 
  total 
  of 
  approximately 
  2095 
  

   birds. 
  

  

  President 
  BailEy 
  reported 
  that 
  bulTalo 
  bones 
  had 
  been 
  received 
  recently 
  

   from 
  a 
  cave 
  in 
  Malheur 
  Co., 
  Oregon, 
  east 
  of 
  Malheur 
  Lake, 
  the 
  locality 
  being 
  

   about 
  100 
  miles 
  further 
  west 
  than 
  any 
  other 
  authentic 
  evidence 
  of 
  the 
  oc- 
  

   currence 
  of 
  buffalo 
  heretofore. 
  Indian 
  tradition, 
  however, 
  indicates 
  that 
  

   they 
  once 
  occurred 
  about 
  50 
  miles 
  further 
  west 
  than 
  this 
  cave. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  paper 
  of 
  the 
  regular 
  program 
  was 
  by 
  Smith 
  Riley, 
  on 
  The 
  Nation's 
  

   game 
  supply, 
  and 
  was 
  illustrated. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  vShufeldt 
  mentioned 
  the 
  antelope 
  as 
  the 
  most 
  difficult 
  animal 
  to 
  pro- 
  

   tect, 
  as 
  it 
  persists 
  in 
  remaining 
  on 
  the 
  plains. 
  He 
  once 
  killed 
  a 
  mountain 
  

   buffalo, 
  considerably 
  different 
  from 
  the 
  plains 
  form. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Marsh 
  said 
  elk 
  are 
  impopular 
  with 
  stockmen, 
  especially 
  when 
  it 
  hap- 
  

   pens 
  that 
  they 
  destroy 
  haystacks 
  and 
  the 
  owner 
  is 
  prevented 
  by 
  law 
  from 
  kill- 
  

   ing 
  them. 
  Major 
  Goldman 
  thought 
  the 
  stockmen 
  could 
  be 
  pacified 
  by 
  feed- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  elk 
  in 
  winter 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  protect 
  the 
  cattle 
  range. 
  

  

  The 
  second 
  paper 
  of 
  the 
  evening 
  was 
  by 
  A. 
  H. 
  HowELL, 
  on 
  The 
  relationship 
  

   and 
  distribution 
  of 
  American 
  chipmunks. 
  The 
  paper 
  was 
  illustrated 
  by 
  skins 
  

   of 
  the 
  animals, 
  and 
  by 
  lantern 
  slides 
  in 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  maps 
  with 
  shading 
  to 
  

   show 
  the 
  areas 
  covered 
  by 
  the 
  different 
  forms. 
  There 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  east 
  one 
  

   species 
  with 
  four 
  subspecies 
  , 
  while 
  in 
  the 
  west 
  there 
  are 
  five 
  species 
  with 
  

   57 
  recognizable 
  subspecies. 
  The 
  western 
  forms 
  climb 
  trees 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  

   eastern 
  but 
  are 
  not 
  actually 
  arboreal. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Palmer 
  said 
  the 
  group 
  was 
  universally 
  called 
  ground-squirrels 
  in 
  the 
  

   early 
  days, 
  the 
  word 
  chipmunk 
  dating 
  only 
  from 
  1842. 
  The 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  

   term 
  he 
  could 
  not 
  explain. 
  He 
  also 
  mentioned 
  that 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  have 
  

   been 
  described 
  by 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  Biological 
  Society. 
  

  

  J. 
  M. 
  Aldrich, 
  Recording 
  Secretary. 
  

  

  