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destructive agents? 4) Are any birds becoming extinct? The answers 

 came from all but four states and territories and showed surprising 

 agreement. The most destructive agencies are sportsmen, plume-hunters, 

 boys after eggs, pot-hunters, fire, English sparrows, etc.; and through 

 these, it has been estimated that there has been a decrease of about 

 46 ^ I Q during the last fifteen years. It was shown that game and 

 edible birds are becoming scarce, and that song birds are being used 

 for food in their stead ; that plume-birds are becoming extinct, and that 

 destructive agencies are increasing. M. Hornaday concluded with an 

 appeal for more drastic measures in our game laws, and for their 

 careful execution. 



Mr. N. R. Harrington reported on a collection made by himself 

 of Crustacea from Puget Sound, worked up by W. N. Calman, Univer- 

 sity College, Dundee, Scotland. The paper dealt with sixty-three species, 

 three of which were new, and several little known. Perhaps the most inter- 

 esting part of the work related to a parasite, Pseudioni Giardi 

 n. s. p. of which male, female, and larva were all described from a 

 single specimen found onEupagurus ochotensis. A new species 

 of Amphipod, Polycheria Osborni, is interesting, because the only 

 other known representative of this genus is found in the antarctic region. 

 The collection is divided up as follows: Macrura, 15 species, thirteen 

 of these being shrimps; Brachura, 34 species : Isopods, 6 species; 

 Amphipods, 3 species; Copepods, 1 species. 



The final paper was given by Mr. H. E. Crampton on his experi- 

 ments on Insect grafting, and upon one case in particular, where the 

 colors of schales of one species were imposed upon the scales of another. 



Gary N. Catkins, Seer. f. Section. 



Anatomisclie Gesellscliaft. 



Berichtigung zu dem Bericht über die Kieler Versammlung. 



Die Revision der Stimmzettel für die Vorstandswahl hat ergeben : 

 Herr Flemming 36, Herr Retzius 35, Herr Waldeyer 26, Herr 

 Merkel 24 Stimmen. 



Personalia. 



Dr. Alfred Schaper (Boston) wird sich von Juni bis September 

 d. J. in Braunschweig (Deutschland) aufhalten und bittet etwaige 

 Zusendungen an ihn während dieser Zeit gütigst nach dort (Hagenstr. 

 No. 1) adressiren zu wollen. 



Abgeschlossen am 14. Mai 1898. 



Frommannsche Buchdruckerei (Hermann Fohle) in Jona, 



