﻿MAY 
  4, 
  1922 
  proceedings: 
  bioi^ogicai^ 
  society 
  233 
  

  

  Dr. 
  A. 
  D. 
  Hopkins, 
  Retiring 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  Biological 
  Society, 
  delivered 
  

   an 
  address 
  on 
  Intercontinental 
  problems 
  in 
  natural 
  and 
  artificial 
  distribution 
  of 
  

   plants. 
  An 
  extended 
  abstract 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Hopkin's 
  paper 
  has 
  been 
  published 
  in 
  

   the 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Academy.^ 
  

  

  A. 
  A. 
  D001.1TTLE, 
  Recording 
  Secretary. 
  

  

  625th 
  meeting 
  

   The 
  625th 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Biological 
  Society 
  of 
  Washington 
  was 
  held 
  on 
  

   April 
  16, 
  1921 
  in 
  the 
  lecture 
  hall 
  of 
  the 
  Cosmos 
  Club, 
  at 
  8:15 
  p.m. 
  President 
  

   HoLLiSTER 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  chair 
  and 
  66 
  persons 
  were 
  present. 
  

  

  Informal 
  communications 
  

   H. 
  C. 
  Oberholser: 
  a 
  note 
  on 
  Miss 
  M. 
  T. 
  Cooke's 
  Birds 
  of 
  the 
  Washington 
  

   Region, 
  published 
  by 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  Formal 
  program 
  

  

  F. 
  C. 
  Lincoln: 
  The 
  Fall 
  migration 
  of 
  ducks 
  from 
  Lake 
  Scugog, 
  Ontario. 
  

  

  Interesting 
  results 
  have 
  been 
  obtained 
  from 
  the 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  

   Biological 
  Survey 
  in 
  banding 
  wild 
  ducks 
  trapped 
  at 
  Lake 
  Scugog, 
  Ontario. 
  

   Last 
  summer 
  about 
  225 
  ducks 
  were 
  banded, 
  mostly 
  mallards 
  and 
  black 
  ducks, 
  

   with 
  a 
  few 
  blue-winged 
  teal 
  and 
  ringnecks. 
  The 
  Biological 
  Survey 
  has 
  already 
  

   received 
  reports 
  of 
  the 
  killing 
  of 
  over 
  35 
  of 
  these 
  ducks 
  or 
  about 
  16 
  per 
  cent. 
  

  

  Some 
  were 
  killed 
  close 
  to 
  Lake 
  Scugog, 
  but 
  others 
  were 
  from 
  such 
  distances 
  

   as 
  to 
  clearly 
  indicate 
  the 
  route 
  these 
  birds 
  travel 
  on 
  their 
  pilgrimage 
  to 
  the 
  

   Gulf 
  Coast. 
  In 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  Valley 
  bands 
  were 
  returned 
  from 
  points 
  in 
  

   Ohio, 
  Indiana, 
  Kentucky, 
  Tennessee, 
  Arkansas, 
  Mississippi, 
  Louisiana 
  and 
  

   Texas. 
  On 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  coast 
  no 
  birds 
  were 
  reported 
  from 
  regions 
  north 
  of 
  

   Chesapeake 
  Bay, 
  but 
  south 
  of 
  this 
  point 
  the 
  route 
  is 
  well 
  connected, 
  showing 
  

   that 
  these 
  birds 
  migrate 
  in 
  a 
  southeasterly 
  direction 
  across 
  the 
  Alleghanies 
  

   to 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  coast. 
  

  

  Bands 
  have 
  been 
  returned 
  from 
  Virginia, 
  North 
  and 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  and 
  

   Florida. 
  The 
  most 
  interesting 
  note 
  was 
  received 
  through 
  the 
  State 
  Depart- 
  

   ment 
  from 
  the 
  American 
  consul 
  on 
  the 
  island 
  of 
  Trinidad. 
  The 
  band 
  had 
  

   been 
  placed 
  on 
  a 
  blue-winged 
  teal 
  at 
  Lake 
  Scugog 
  on 
  September 
  24, 
  1920, 
  and 
  

   was 
  recovered 
  through 
  a 
  local 
  hunter 
  near 
  Port 
  of 
  Spain, 
  Trinidad, 
  on 
  

   December 
  9. 
  (Author's 
  abstract.) 
  

  

  The 
  paper 
  was 
  discussed 
  by 
  Dr. 
  A. 
  S. 
  Hitchcock. 
  

  

  E. 
  W. 
  Nelson: 
  Alaska 
  and 
  the 
  reindeer 
  industry. 
  

  

  Thos. 
  E. 
  Snyder, 
  Recording 
  Secretary 
  pro 
  tem. 
  

  

  626th 
  meeting 
  

   The 
  626th 
  regular 
  meeting 
  was 
  held 
  April 
  30, 
  1921, 
  in 
  the 
  lecture 
  hall 
  of 
  the 
  

   Cosmos 
  Club, 
  at 
  8:15 
  p.m. 
  President 
  HoLLiSTER 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  chair 
  and 
  51 
  

   persons 
  were 
  present. 
  

  

  Informal 
  communications 
  

  

  M. 
  W. 
  Lyon: 
  Note 
  on 
  buffalo 
  or 
  bison 
  raising. 
  This 
  note 
  was 
  illustrated 
  

   with 
  a 
  lantern 
  slide 
  of 
  a 
  carcass 
  of 
  a 
  pure 
  bison 
  calf 
  exhibited 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  a 
  

   restaurant 
  in 
  South 
  Bend, 
  Indiana. 
  

  

  T. 
  S. 
  Palmer 
  : 
  Note 
  on 
  the 
  status 
  of 
  bison 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States. 
  One 
  large 
  

   herd 
  which 
  was 
  becoming 
  unprofitable 
  was 
  disposed 
  of 
  by 
  letting 
  sportsmen 
  

   shoot 
  the 
  animals 
  at 
  $250 
  per 
  head. 
  There 
  are 
  a 
  thousand 
  head 
  on 
  the 
  market 
  

  

  1 
  This 
  Journal 
  11: 
  223-227, 
  227-229. 
  May 
  19, 
  1921. 
  

  

  