Proceedings. ix 



F. V. Coville : Different Editions of Some Government Expe- 

 dition Reports.* 



March 21, 1896— 258th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and forty-seven persons present. 

 The following communications were presented: 



B. W. Evermann: Animals from an Artesian Well at San 

 JVhircos, Texas. 



In the discussion Dr. Leonhard Stejueger described a remark- 

 able blind salamander occurring in the same well. 



C. Hart Merriam : The Big Bears of North America. f 

 Henry H. Dixon : Recent Researches on the Ascent of Sap in 



Trees. (By invitation of the Society.) 



L. 0. Howard : The Shade-tree Question from an Insect Stand- 

 point. J 



Leonhard Stejneger : On the Use of Formaline in the Field. 



F. E. L. Beal: The Food of the Cow-bird. 



April 4, 1896 -259th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and forty-five persons present. 



The following communications were presented : 



V. K. Chesnut: Pfaff 's Recent Investigations on RJius Poison- 

 ing. 



B. T. Galloway : The Action of Copper in Poisoning Fungi. 



Barton W. Evermann: The Story of two Salmon. 



Frederick V. Coville : Botanical Exploration near tlie Mexican 

 Boundary. 



April 18, 1896— 260th Meeting. 



The President in the chair and twenty persons [»resent. 



The following communications were presented : 



W. H. Dall : Exhibition of Skins of the Glacier Bear, Ursus 

 cmmonsi. 



Charles D. Walcott : Preliminary Notes on Middle Cambrian 

 Medusae. 



B. E. Fernow : A Pine Coppice.§ 



* Three Editions of Emory's Report, 1848. <BulI. Torrey Bot. Chib, 

 vol. 23, pp. 90-92, March, 1896. Three Editions of Stansbury's Report. 

 <ilbid., pp. 137-189, April, 1896. 



fProc. Biol. Soc. Washington, x, pp. 65-8:3, pis. iv-vi, April ]3, 1896. 



t Yearbook U. S. Dept. Agric, 1895, pp. 361-38-t. 



I Garden and Forest, viii, p. 472, 1896. 

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