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k. W. SHUFELDT, Q. S. Army— Some early, and as yet unpublished, drawings of 

 Audubon. 

 THEODORE Gill— The characteristics and families of iuiomous fishes. 



(April 17, 1886.) 



Theodore Gill — The characteristics and families of iuiomous fishes. 

 Frederic A. Lucas — Notes on the vertebrae of Amphiuma, Siren, and Menopoma. 

 FREDERICK W. True — 1. Exhibition of a wood hare with abnormal growth of 

 far. 2, Some distinctive cranial characters of the Canadian Lynx. 

 R. E. 0. Stearns —Instances of the effect of musical sounds on animals. 

 John B. Smith — Ants' nests aud their inhabitants. 



(May 1, 1836.) 



R. E. C. Stearns — Instances of the effect of musical souuds on animals. 

 John A. Ryder — The evolution of the mammalian placenta. 

 T. H. Bean — The trout of North America, with exhibition of specimens. 

 William H. Dall — 1. On the attachment of Lingida, with exhibition of speci- 

 mens. 2. On the divisions of the genus Pecten. 



(May 15, 1836.) 



John B. Smith — Ants' nests aud their inhabitants. 



T. II. Bean — The trout of North America, with exhibition of specimens. 



L. O. Howard— Ou some new Chalcididcc. 



C. Hart Merriam— Habits of the Short-tailed Shrew. 



(May 29, 1886.) 



John B. Smith — Ants' nests and their inhabitants. 



T. H. Bean — The trout of North America, with exhibition of specimens. 

 L. 0. Howard— On some new Chalcididce. 



Lester F. Ward — Exhibition of a specimen of the Palo la Cruz, or Wood of the 

 Cross. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



(November 18. 1885.) 



Otto Lugger — On the earlier stages and habits of Ccenia dimidiata. 



B. P. Mann — Ou the Dewey decimal system of classifying and arranging books. 



J. B. Smith — On Dr. Gerstaecker's paper on the systematic position of the genus 

 Pleocoma Le C. 

 L. 0. Howard— Ou Thoracaniha fioridana Ashmead. 



(December 3, 1885.) 



J. B. Smith — On the occurrence of Pleocoma Behrensi in Utah Territory. 

 J. B. Smith — On the larva of Aphorista vitlaia. 



C. V. Riley — On the larval habits of Lixas maccr and L. parous. 



E. A. Schwarz — On the food-habits of an undescribed calandrid beetle. 

 L. 0. Howard — On the larval respiration in Carydalua cornutus. 



B. P. Mann — On the use of the Dewey decimal system. 



(January 7, 1886. ) 



Annual address of the retiring President, Prof. C. V. Riley.. 



H. Osborn — Observations on certain species of Hemiptera. 



Otto Lugger — On the life-habits of Mesitea subcylindrieils and Platypus flavicornis. 



C. V. Riley — On the larvae and pupae of Aphorista vittata and Epipocus punctatus. 



