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witli clearly demonstrable atrophy, with defi- 

 nite distribution of these disturbances. The 

 paper is clearly illustrated from photographs 

 of the patients. Dr. Morton Prince con- 

 tributes a short paper on a case of multiform 

 tic including automatic speech and purposive 

 movements which was presented by him at 

 the meeting of the Boston Society of Psy- 

 chiatry and Neurology, March 16, 1905. This 

 issue includes reports of the New York Neu- 

 rological Society for October 3, 1905, and of 

 the Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neu- 

 rology for October 19, 1905. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 THE AMERICAN MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The society held its third annual meeting 

 in connection with the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science at New Or- 

 leans, January 1, 1906. 



In the absence of the president. Professor 

 Charles H. Peek, the vice-president, Professor 

 P. S. Earle, presided. 



The new constitution recommended by the 

 committees of the Botanical Society of Amer- 

 ica, the Society for Plant Morphology and 

 Physiology and the American Mycological 

 Society, as a basis for the union of the three 

 societies, was adopted and the present officers 

 continued as a committee with power to co- 

 operate in the completion of the details of 

 reorganization. 



The following papers were presented at the 

 meeting : 



J. C. Arthur : ' Some Reasons for Desiring a 

 Better Classification of the Uredinales.' 



S. M. Tracy : ' Uredinese of the Gulf States.' 



W. G. Fari^ow : ' Some Peculiar Fungi New to 

 America.' 



F. S. Earle : ' North American Gill Fungi.' 



Bruce Fink: 'Lichens and Recent Conceptions 

 of Species.' (Read by title.) 



E. M. Freeman : ' The Affinities of the Fungus 

 of Lolium temulentum.' 



C. L. Shear ; ' Peridermium cerebrum Peck, and 

 Gronartium Quercuum (Berkeley).' 



C. L. Shear : ' Ramularia : An Illustration of 

 the Present Practise in Mycological Nomenclature.' 



P. H. Rolfs : 'Notes on Cultures of Colleto- 

 trichum and Glocosporium.' 



Pebley Spaulding : ' The Occurrence of Fusoma 

 parasiticum Tubeuf in this Country.' 



P. H. Rolfs : ' Notes on Paohyma cocos.' 

 P. H. Rolfs: ' Penicillium glaucum on Pine- 

 apple Fruit.' 0. L. Shear, 

 Secretary-Treasurer. 



the biological society of WASHINGTON. 



The 26th annual and 408th regular meeting 

 was held on December 23, 1905, and the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected for the ensuing 

 year: 



President — F. H. Knowlton. 



Vice-Presidents — ^T. S. Palmer, W. P. Hay, E. L. 

 Greene and E. W. Nelson. 



Recording Secretary — M. C. Marsh. 



Corresponding Secretary — W. H. Osgood. 



Treasurer— Davii White. 



Councilors — A. D. Hopkins, J. N. Rose, A. K. 

 Fisher, L. Stejneger and A. B. Baker. 



President Knowlton was nominated for 

 vice-president of the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences. 



The 409th regular meeting was held on 

 January 6, 1906. 



Mr. J. W. Titcomb exhibited a mud nest 

 weighing thirteen pounds, of the red oven- 

 bird or hornero (Furnarius rufus) from Ar- 

 gentina, South America. 



Dr. L. O. Howard gave an account of the 

 symposium on ' Tellow Fever and Other In- 

 sect-bprne Diseases ' held under the auspices 

 of the section on physiology and experimental 

 medicine at the recent New Orleans meeting 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. 



Mr. Henry Van Deman exhibited two fine 

 specimens of vsdnter apples from the Hood 

 River Yalley, Oregon. These represent two 

 eastern varieties, the Newtown and Esopus, 

 which have gained markedly in excellence by 

 transplantation to the Pacific slope. 



The paper of the evening was presented by 

 Mr. Alvin Scale, ' Notes on the Natural His- 

 tory of the South Pacific Islands.' He gave 

 an account of the general features of several 

 groups of islands visited, with descriptions of 

 the characteristics of the native populations. 

 His remarks were well illustrated by a series 

 of lantern slides. M. C. Marsh, 



Recording Secretary. 



