372 JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOL. 13, No. 16 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 
SOCIETIES 
BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
652D MEETING 
The 652d meeting of the Biological Society was held in the lecture room of 
the Cosmos Club March 31, 1923, at 8.05 p.m., with President HrrcucocKx 
in the chair and 112 persons present. Homrr C. SKEELS was elected to 
membership. 
Under Short Notes, Dr. R. W. Saure.pt exhibited a large bullfrog captured 
in Alexandria a few days before, which when properly excited, squalled very 
much like a toy balloon or a cat in distress. 
Miss P. L. Boone reported a newly discovered fossil deposit near Weems, 
Virginia, containing isopods and a skeleton which may be that of a crocodile. 
S. F. Buaxs reported the observation of a belled turkey buzzard in Wash- 
ington in October 1922. Similar cases were mentioned by P. Barrscu and 
F. A. McCuure. 
The regular program was as follows: C. A. Resp: Biological observations in 
China (lantern). The speaker described his itinerary on a recent trip in 
China, and gave an account of the methods of agriculture of the Chinese, 
illustrating his talk with numerous lantern slides. The paper was discussed 
by Messrs. McCuurs, Howarp, Stites, SHurELDT, Hircucock, and Prrer. 
(No abstract received.) 
C. W. Stites: Brother Bryan’s revolution against evolution. According to 
Mr. Bryan’s premises, all germs which cause disease must have been created 
in the beginning as they exist today. If it is to be conceded that these germs 
were originally created in some form other than as disease germs, the theory 
of evolution stands admitted. Obviously, since Adam was the last animal 
created and since the animals were not created until after the plants, it is 
unthinkable that any of the numerous germs which cause disease were created 
after Adam. Since disease germs are dependent for their existence upon 
animals and plants in which they cause disease, it is clear that these germs 
could not have been created or have existed prior to the creation of their victims. 
A challenge of this deduction would be an admission that the germs were not 
created as they are to-day, but that they later evolved into disease germs; 
but this would be an admission of evolution. Therefore, if Mr. Bryan’s 
challenge is to be accepted, we must conclude that Adam harbored every 
germ disease which is characteristic of man or dependent on man for its life 
eyele, and that, further, the Garden of Eden may have been in China, because 
that is the only place where man is known to survive some of the afflictions. 
(Author’s abstract.) 
653D MEETING 
The 653d meeting of the Biological Society was held in the lecture room 
of the Cosmos Club April 14, 1923, at 8.05 p.m., with President Hrrcucock 
in the chair and 69 persons present. Owing to the length of the program, 
the usual Short Notes were passed over. The regular program was as follows: 
Mrs. Cuarues D. Waucorr: Wild flowers of the Canadian Rockies (lantern). 
The speaker exhibited a large number of beautifully colored slides of the wild 
flowers and scenery of the Canadian Rockies and the Selkirks, particularly 
from the vicinity of Lake Louise and the Yoho Valley. The paper was dis- 
cussed by T. ULkn, P. Barrscu, and C. D. Watcorr. 
