viii ProrrrcJhif/!^. 



C. Hart I\[orriani : A Romarkalile New RahWit from ^Mexico. 

 Cli. Wardell »Stiles : Dhtonm ivcxlcrmannl \\\ tlie TjUii<;-s of a 

 Cat.* 

 C. V. Rile}': The Trausrnis.sion of Ac({uire(l Characters. 



February 24, 1894— 223d Meeting. 



Vice-President B. E. Fernow in the chair and fifteen persons 



present. 



The following communications were presented : 



M. B. VVaite : The Structure and Method of 0[)ening of the 



Anthers of the Pomea?. 



B. T. Galloway : The Winter Coloration of P]vergreen Leaves. 

 L. 0. Howard : Notes on Spider Bites. 



March 10, 1894— 224th Meeting. 



Ex-President Lester F. Ward iu the chair and twenty i>ersons 

 present. 



C. H. Townsend : The Ornithology of Cocos Island in its Re- 

 lation to that of the Galapagos Archipelago. f 



B. T. (Jalloway: A Hexenbesen oi Ruhus. 

 M. B. Waite: The Hexenbesens of Washington and Vicinity. 

 \Vni. Palmer: Rare Birds taken in the District of Columljia. 

 Leonhard Stejneger exhibited a specimen of a spade-foot toad 

 (^Spea) found in sandstone 23 feet below the surface. 



March 24, 1894— 225th Meeting. 



Vice-President Richard Rathbun in the chair and twenty 

 persons present. 



The following communications were presented : 



Theobald Smith : On the Significance of V^ariation among 

 Species of Pathogenic Bacteria. 



Vernon Bailey : On Some Bones from a Cave in Arizona. 



* Notes on Parasites, 26 : DiMoma {Mesngonimus) westermamii. Discov- 

 ery of a parasite of Man, new to tlic United States. <.Jolins II()i)kins 

 Hospital Bulletin, No. 40, 57-58, figs. 1-4, 1894. 



t Birds from Cocos and IVIalpelo Islands, with notes on Petrels obtained 

 at Sea. <Bull. Mas. Comp. ZooL, xxvii. No. 3, 121-12(), 2 col. pis., July, 

 1895. 



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