26 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



Fourth Meeting, January 14, 1881. 

 (First Annual Meeting.) 



The President occupied the chair and thirty members were present. 



In accordance with the recommendation of the Council one of 

 the Secretaries of the Society was instructed to cast the vote of its 

 members for the entire board of officers elected at the meeting of 

 December 10, such having been the understanding at the time of 

 that election. The officers elected at that time were then an- 

 nounced as having been re-elected to serve during the coming 

 year. 



The President announced that the Secretary had been authorized 

 to have printed 250 copies of the constitution, with list of officers 

 and members, and requested all members to send in their full names, 

 that the customs of similar societies might be conformed to. 



Prof. L. F. Ward read a paper entitled The Flora Columbiana 

 of 1830 and 1880, which contained comparisons between the list 

 of the plants of the District of Columbia printed in 1830 by Dr. 

 Brereton and the lists perfected by the resident botanists of to-day. * 



Prof. D. S. Jordan, of the Indiana State University, read a paper 

 entitled The Salmon of the Pacific Coast, f 



Fifth Meeting, January 28, 1881. 



The President occupied the chair, and thirty-six members were 

 present. 



The President delivered his first annual address upon The Prin- 

 ciples of Biology with reference to Taxonomy. J 



In the discussion of the presidential address, Messrs. Comstock, 

 Mason, Ward, Riley and White participated. 



* Included in the following paper : 



1882. Ward, Lester F. Guide | to j the Flora | of | Washington and 



Vicinity | By | Lester F. Ward, A. M. | | Washington : Government 



Printing Office, | 1SS1. 8vo., pp. 264 -J- 2, with map = Bulletin of the U. S. 

 National Museum, No. 22. (U. S. National Museum, No. 26.) 



f 1881. Jordan, David S., and CharlesH. Gilbert. Observations on the 

 Salmon of the Pacific. < American Naturalist. XV, 18S1, (March,) pp. 177— 

 186. 



% The essentials of this address are embodied in the articles Biology (Vol. I, 

 1875,) and Morphology (Vol. Ill, 1877,) in Johnson's Cyclopedia. New York, 

 1875-8 



