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The report of the Auditing Committee, consisting of G. R. Mans- 

 field, William Blum and F. C. Cook, was then read, and the reports 

 of the Treasurer and Auditing Committee were accepted. 



The report of the Editors of the Journal was read by J. Franklin 

 Meyer. 



The committee of tellers, consisting of I. G. Priest, E. Posnjak and 

 R. B. Sosman, reported that the following officers had been elected for 

 1920: President, C. L. Alsberg; Corresponding Secretary, Robert B. 

 Sosman; Recording Secretary, William R. Maxon; Treasurer, R. L. 

 Faris; Non-resident Vice-Presidents, Jacques Loeb, Elihu Thomson; 

 Members of Board of Managers, Class of 1923, L. A. Bauer, T. Way- 

 land Vaughan. 



The following Vice-Presidents, nominated by the affiliated Societies, 

 were then elected: Philosophical Society, W. J. Humphreys; An- 

 thropological Society, George M. Kober; Archaeological Society, Ales 

 Hrdlicka; Biological Society, A. D. Hopkins; Chemical Society, C. O. 

 Johns; Society of Engineers, E. C. Barnard; Entomological Society, 

 S. A. RohwEr; Society of Foresters, Raphael Zon; National Geographic 

 Society, F. V. Coville ; Geological Society, E. O. Ulrich. 



G. F. lyOUGHLiN, Recording Secretary, pro tern. 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



602 D MEETING 



The 6o2d regular meeting of the Biological Society of Washington 

 was held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club on November 

 29, 1919. 



Under the heading of "Communications," Dr. R. E. Coker presented 

 a document issued by the Bureau of Fisheries, entitled The life history 

 of the bine crab, by E. P. Churchill, Jr. In this paper it is brought out 

 that spawning takes place in the south, so far as Chesapeake Bay is 

 concerned; the young migrate north. After mating takes place, fe- 

 males move to the south, and males remain in the north. 



Dr. H. C. Oberholser called attention to the appearance on that 

 day of Volume i, No. i, of the Journal of Mammalogy, the organ of the 

 recently formed Society of Mammalogists. Mr. Oberholser also men- 

 tioned, as a marked contribution to ornithological methods, a paper 

 entitled Bird banding by systematic trapping, by S. Prentiss Baldwin. 

 Although the experiments have been thus far conducted by a single 

 individual, yet remarkable facts concerning the movements of birds 

 have been learned. 



Dr. H. M. Smith stated that he had observed a pair of swans and 

 cygnets in a new nesting place, a small unnamed lake in Yellowstone 

 Park. 



Dr. T. S. Palmer spoke of the condition of Osborn's Caribou. About 

 100 individuals in Jasper Park, Alberta, are all that are known to exist. 

 Forty individuals in good condition were recently observed. He also 



