March 17, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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Rosen, U. S. National Museum; Miss Virginia 

 Boone, U. S. National Museum; Ira N. Gabriel- 

 son, Biological Siarvey; James Silver. 



Annual reports of officers and committees were 

 sulDmitted. 



Election of officers for the year 1916 resulted 

 as follows: 



President, W. P. Hay. 



Vice-presidents, J. N. Rose, A. D. Hopkins, 

 Hugh M. Smith and Vernon Bailey. 



Secording Secretary, M. W. Lyon, Jr. 



Corresponding Secretary, W. L. MeAtee. 



Treasurer, "W. W. Cooke. 



Councillors, N. HoUister, J. W. Gidley, William 

 Palmer, Alex. Wetmore, E. A. Mearns. 



President Hay was elected a vice-president of 

 the Washington Academy of Sciences. 



The president announced the following com- 

 mittees: 



Committee on Publications, N. HoUister, W. L. 

 McAtee, W. W. Cooke. 



Committee on Communications, Wm. Palmer, 

 Alex. Wetmore, Lewis Radcliflfe, J. W. Gidley, W. 

 R. Maxon, H. S. Barber. 



The 548th meeting of the society was held in the 

 Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club on Saturday, 

 January 15, 1916, called to order by President Hay 

 at 8 P.M. with 40 persons present. 



The president noted the recent death of P. M. 

 Webster, long a member of the society. 



Upon recommendation of the council the follow- 

 ing were elected to active membership: H. F. Tay- 

 lor, Bureau of Fisheries; Douglas C. Mabbott, Bio- 

 logical Survey; Wallace M. Taters, Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Under the heading of Brief Notes and Exhibi- 

 tion of Specimens Mr. Wm. Palmer exhibited a 

 specimen of seahorse which actually came from 

 near Colonial Beach, Chesapeake Bay, but which 

 had attained much newspaper notoriety as having 

 been caught in the Tidal Basin, D. C. He also ex- 

 hibited the collector's sketch of a pipefish which 

 had been captured in the Tidal Basin. 



The regular program was a communication by 

 W. W. Cooke, "Notes on Labrador Birds." Mr. 

 Cooke gave an interesting account of Mr. Clarence 

 Birdseye 's experiences and travels in Labrador dur- 

 ing the past four years while engaged in farming 

 silver gray foxes for their furs, describing the diffi- 

 culties under which he labored and the disastrous 

 effect of the European war on the fur market. The 

 speaker then gave an historical survey of Labrador 



ornithology from the early days of Cartwright to 

 Mr. Birdseye 's latest observations, which includes 

 the extension of range of several species of birds. 

 Mr. Cooke 's communication was illustrated with 

 lantern slide views of maps of Labrador, maps of 

 migrations of certain birds, and views of several 

 birds which had lately been observed for the first 

 time in eastern Labrador. Mr. Birdseye 's observa- 

 tion on Labrador birds will appear in full in the 

 April AuTc. 



Mr. Cooke 's communication was discussed by Mr. 

 Wm. Palmer and by Mr. Alex. Wetmore. 



The 549th regular meeting of the society was 

 held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club, 

 Saturday, January 29, 1916, called to order at 8 

 P.M. by President Hay, with thirty persons present. 



The recent and previously unnoticed deaths of 

 members of the society. Dr. G. D. Elliot, A. M. 

 Groves and C. E. Slocum were noted by the presi- 

 dent. On recommendation of the council Dr. 

 Walter K. Fisher, Stanford University, was elected 

 to active membership. 



Under the heading Brief Notes Dr. L. O. How- 

 ard told of some of the published anecdotes re- 

 garding the entomologist General Dejean who 

 served under Napoleon I., and of his zeal as a col- 

 lector even under the excitement of battle. 



Under the same heading Dr. H. M. Smith called 

 attention to the successful introduction of the 

 tilefish into the markets, restaurants and homes 

 of the United States. 



Under the heading Exhibition of Specimens Dr. 

 L. O. Howard exhibited a photographic lantern 

 slide of Orsini's statue, Proximus Tuus, repre- 

 senting a malarial stricken Italian peasant. The 

 statue was exhibited at the San Francisco fair and 

 illustrations of it are used in a California antimos- 

 quito campaign. By way of contrast Dr. Howard 

 showed a group of healthy children on the form- 

 erly malaria-infested Eomam Campagna. 



Under the same heading Mr. William Palmer 

 exhibited several bones of extinct cetaceans re- 

 cently collected by him at Chesapeake Beach, 

 Maryland, He called attention to the work of 

 Cope and of other paleontologists on this group 

 and pointed out the relationships of the forms with 

 some of the modern cetaceans. 



The regular program comprised a paper by Ned 

 Dearborn, "Fur Farming in Alaska." Dr. Dear- 

 born pointed out the possibilities of fur farming 

 in Alaska, stating that at present there are 75 lo- 

 calities in that territory where such farming is 



