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F. H. Knowlton : The Amount of Water Transpired by Plants. 

 B. W.Evermanu: On the Red Fish of the Idaho Lakes. 



December 15, 1894 — 234th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and eighteen persons present. 

 The following communications were presented : 

 Charles T. Simpson : The Validity of the Genus MargaritanaJ^ 

 C. V. Riley: Some Interesting Results of Injuries to Trees. 

 Erwin F. Smith : The Last Phase of the Root Tubercle Ques- 

 tion.f 



December 29, 1894— 235th Meeting, 



(Fifteenth Annual Meeting.) 



The President in the chair and fifteen persons present. 



The annual reports of the Secretary and Treasurer were pre- 

 sented, and officers for 1895 were elected as follows : 



President : Surgeon General George M. Sternlterg. 



Vice-Presideiiis : Richard Rathbun, C. D. Walcott, B. E. Fer- 

 now, L. 0. Howard. 



Recording Secretary : M. B. Waite. 



Corresponding Secretary : F. A. Lucas. 



Treasurer : F. H. Knowlton. 



Additional Members of the Council: Wm. H. Ashmead, Tarleton 

 H. Bean, Theobald Smith, Ch. Wardell Stiles, F. W. True. 



January 12, 1895— 236th Meeting. 



The President in tlie chair and fifty-three persons present. 



The evening was devoted to a lecture l)y 



Tj. H. Bailey : The Plant Individual in the Light of Evolution, j; 



January 26, 1895— 237th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and fifteen persons present. 

 The following communications were presented : 

 L. 0. Howard : A New Cotton Enemy brought over from 

 Mexico. 



* Am. Nat., vol. 29, 336-344, April, 1895. 

 t Am. Nat., vol. ^9, 898-903, Oct., 1895. 



X The Plant Individual in the Light of Evolution. <Science, NS., I., 

 281-292, March 15, 1895. 



