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the Application of Hot Water to Seed Increases the Yield, J. C. 
Arthur; Heredity of Acquired Characters, by M. Miles; The 
Production of Immunity in Guinea Pigs from Hog Cholera by the 
Use of Blood Serum from Immunized Animals, E. A. deSchweinitz ; 
On the Supposed Correlation of Quality in Fruits—A Study 
in Evolution, L. H. Bailey; The Descent of the Lepidoptera—An 
Application of the Theory of Natural Selection to Taxonomy, J. 
H. Comstock; Non-parasitic Bacteria in Vegetable Tissue, H. L. 
Russell; Notes on Yellow Pitch-pine, Pinus rigida Mill. var. lutea 
Kell. n. v, W. A. Kellerman; Germination at Intervals of Seed 
Treated with Fungicides, W. A. Kellerman; The Fertilization of 
Pear Flowers, M. B. Waite. 
Monday, August 22.—On the Adult Cestodes of Cattle and Sheep, 
C. W. Stiles; The Fertilization of the Fig and Caprification, C. V. 
Riley ; An Interesting Case of Parasitism, A. H. Tuttle; A Compara- 
tive Study of the Roots of Ranunculacee, F. B. Maxwell, presented 
by W.R. Dudley; Do Termites Cultivate Fungi? O. F. Cook; Note 
on the Appearance of Two Embryo Chicks in an Single Blastoderm, 
R. O. Moody; The Proposed Columbus Biological Stations in Jamaica, 
A. H. Tuttle; Adaptation of Plants to External Environment, W. P. 
Wilson; Notes on Self-pollination of the Grape, S. A. Beach; The 
Comparative Influence of Odor and Color in Attracting insects, G. B 
Sudworth; A Preliminary Account of the Brain of Diemyctylus 
viridescens based upon sections made through the entire Head, 
S. P. Gage. 
Tuesday, August 23.—Notes on some Fresh Water Mollusks, 
W. M. Beauchamp; The Conditions which Determine the Distribu- 
tion of Bacteria in the Water of Rivers, J. H. Stoller; Biological 
Notes on Fauna of Cold Spring Harbor, C. W. Hargitt; Geo- 
graphic Relationship of the Flora of the High Sierra Nevada, Cali- 
fornia, F. V. Coville; Variation in Native Ferns, by W. M. Beau- 
champ; Live-forever Eradicated by a Fungous Disease, D.G. Fair- 
child: Otto Kuntze’s Changes in Nomenclature of North American 
Grasses, G. Vasey; Revised Nomenclature of the Arborescent Flora 
of the Unitéd States, B. E. Fernow and G. B. Sudworth: On Car- 
phoxera ptelearia, the New Herbarium Pest, C. V. Riley ; The Insect 
Fauna of the Mississippi Bottoms, H. E. Weed ; Characteristics and 
adaptations of Desert Vegetation, F. V. Coville ; Shrinkage of Wood 
as Observed Under the Microscope, F. Roth; Peziza sclerotium, L. 
H. Pammel; Temperature and Some of Its Relations to Plant Life 
