﻿AUGUST 
  19, 
  1922 
  proceedings: 
  BIOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY 
  333 
  

  

  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  ACADEMY 
  AND 
  AFFILIATED 
  

  

  SOCIETIES 
  

  

  BIOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY 
  

  

  641ST 
  MEETING 
  

  

  The 
  641st 
  meeting 
  was 
  held 
  at 
  the 
  Cosmos 
  Club 
  on 
  May 
  13, 
  1922, 
  with 
  

   President 
  Bailey 
  in 
  the 
  chair 
  and 
  74 
  persons 
  present. 
  The 
  minutes 
  of 
  the 
  

   last 
  meeting 
  were 
  read 
  and 
  approved. 
  M. 
  N. 
  Pope 
  and 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  W. 
  Roberts 
  

   were 
  elected 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  Short 
  Notes 
  

  

  Dr. 
  White 
  exhibited 
  a 
  fossil 
  frog 
  or 
  toad 
  in 
  a 
  remarkable 
  state 
  of 
  preser- 
  

   vation. 
  It 
  was 
  taken 
  from 
  some 
  oil 
  shale 
  at 
  Elko, 
  Nevado, 
  and 
  is 
  the 
  prop- 
  

   erty 
  of 
  W. 
  K. 
  SheELER 
  of 
  that 
  place. 
  The 
  stratum 
  is 
  of 
  Middle 
  Miocene 
  

   age, 
  overlying 
  beds 
  of 
  lignite. 
  It 
  seems 
  that 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  vegetable 
  

   growth 
  in 
  the 
  water 
  of 
  that 
  early 
  period 
  gradually 
  resulted 
  in 
  ulmohumic 
  acid 
  

   accumulation, 
  which 
  apparently 
  stopped 
  bacterial 
  growth 
  and 
  thus 
  the 
  frog 
  

   was 
  preserved 
  in 
  a 
  medium 
  virtually 
  aseptic. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Aldrich 
  said 
  in 
  this 
  connection 
  that 
  the 
  shales 
  of 
  the 
  Green 
  River 
  

   at 
  the 
  Dinosaur 
  Monument 
  in 
  Utah 
  contain 
  many 
  dipterous 
  larvae 
  which 
  seem 
  

   certainly 
  to 
  be 
  those 
  of 
  botflies, 
  though 
  no 
  reason 
  can 
  be 
  thought 
  of 
  to 
  account 
  

   for 
  such 
  large 
  numbers 
  of 
  these 
  flies, 
  now 
  very 
  scarce. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Howard 
  asked 
  if 
  Dr. 
  White 
  could 
  conjecture 
  what 
  animal 
  could 
  

   have 
  been 
  the 
  host 
  of 
  such 
  a 
  quantity 
  of 
  bots. 
  He 
  could 
  not 
  offer 
  a 
  sug- 
  

   gestion 
  on 
  the 
  matter, 
  however. 
  But 
  he 
  added 
  the 
  remark 
  that 
  the 
  open 
  

   quarrvdng 
  of 
  oil 
  shales 
  on 
  a 
  large 
  scale 
  in 
  the 
  West, 
  which 
  is 
  sure 
  to 
  come 
  be- 
  

   fore 
  many 
  years, 
  will 
  be 
  a 
  veritable 
  gold 
  mine 
  for 
  the 
  paleontologists. 
  

  

  Miss 
  Boone 
  reported 
  that 
  she 
  had 
  recently 
  visited 
  Mr. 
  Chas. 
  T. 
  Simpson, 
  

   formerly 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  staff, 
  at 
  his 
  home 
  in 
  Florida. 
  He 
  has 
  for 
  

   a 
  long 
  time 
  been 
  engaged 
  in 
  gathering 
  and 
  cultivating 
  on 
  a 
  Florida 
  ham- 
  

   mock 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  Florida 
  and 
  other 
  tropical 
  plants; 
  and 
  lately 
  the 
  

   city 
  of 
  Miami 
  has 
  adopted 
  his 
  place 
  as 
  a 
  public 
  park, 
  to 
  remain 
  in 
  his 
  care. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  WetmorE 
  stated 
  that 
  bird 
  notes 
  are 
  sometimes 
  very 
  unusual. 
  Near 
  

   Mt. 
  Vernon 
  a 
  few 
  days 
  ago 
  he 
  heard 
  a 
  small 
  bird 
  singing 
  an 
  unfamiliar 
  song 
  

   from 
  a 
  position 
  on 
  a 
  telephone 
  wire. 
  On 
  inspection, 
  it 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  an 
  oven- 
  

   bird. 
  He 
  said 
  that 
  Mr. 
  McAtee 
  had 
  noted 
  the 
  same 
  case 
  a 
  year 
  earlier 
  at 
  

   almost 
  the 
  same 
  place. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  paper 
  of 
  the 
  evening 
  was 
  by 
  Dr. 
  T. 
  S. 
  Palmer, 
  on 
  the 
  subject 
  

   Twenty 
  years 
  of 
  Federal 
  protection 
  of 
  the 
  buffalo. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  and 
  only 
  appropriation 
  for 
  the 
  purchase 
  of 
  buffalo 
  ever 
  passed 
  by 
  

   Congress 
  was 
  approved 
  by 
  President 
  Roosevelt 
  July 
  1, 
  1902. 
  It 
  was 
  a 
  pro- 
  

   vision 
  in 
  the 
  general 
  deficiency 
  bill 
  carrying 
  $15,000 
  for 
  the 
  purchase 
  of 
  buffalo 
  

   for 
  the 
  Yellowstone 
  National 
  Park, 
  providing 
  fencing, 
  and 
  maintenance 
  for 
  one 
  

   year. 
  Under 
  this 
  act 
  21 
  buffalo 
  were 
  purchased 
  and 
  established 
  at 
  the 
  park. 
  

  

  In 
  1902 
  the 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  buffalo 
  in 
  existence 
  was 
  only 
  about 
  1750, 
  of 
  

   which 
  600 
  were 
  wood 
  bison 
  in 
  Canada 
  ; 
  200 
  were 
  in 
  a 
  single 
  herd, 
  the 
  prop- 
  

   erty 
  of 
  Michael 
  Pablo 
  in 
  Montana 
  ; 
  52 
  belonged 
  to 
  the 
  government, 
  and 
  others 
  

   in 
  small 
  scattered 
  herds. 
  The 
  only 
  wild 
  buffalo 
  were 
  22 
  in 
  the 
  Yellowstone 
  

   National 
  Park 
  and 
  5 
  in 
  Lost 
  Park, 
  Colorado. 
  The 
  government 
  herds 
  in- 
  

   cluded 
  9 
  head 
  in 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Park 
  here 
  in 
  Washington. 
  

  

  