884 The American Naturalist. [October, 
Entomological Club of the A. A. A. S.—Thursday, August 
18.—E. A. Schwarz, President; Howard Evarts Weed, Secretary. 
The following papers were read: Preparatory Stages of Colothysanis — 
amaturaria, D. S. Kellicott; Insects Reared From Galls on Muhlen- 
bergia mexicana, F. M. Webster; Notes on the American Bean 
Weevil, C. V. Riley; Galeruca calmariensis Polygoneutic at W ash- 
ington, C. V. Riley; Galeruca calmariensis Monogoneutic at New 
Brunswick, N. J., J. B. Smith; The Inhabitants of a fungus, H. G. 
Hubbard; Life-history of Zenos, H. G. Hubbard; A Cutaneous 
- Disease of Cattle Caused by an Arachnid, ©. W. Stiles. 
Friday, August 19.—Life-history of a Fungus, H. G. Hubbard; 
The Males of Xyleborus, E. Schwarz; Notes on a Trip to Nepigon, 
James Fletcher; The Synonymy of the Bean Weevil, C. V. Riley ; 
Notes on the Species of Acanthia, Herbert Osborn; Honey-bee or 
House-fly, Herbert Osborn; Life History of Gryllotalpa borealis, 
E. W. Doran; Notes on the Arthropoda of Liberia, O. F. Cook; 
The Osage Orange Pyralid, Mary E. Murtfeldt; Note on a Borer in 
the stem of the Red Current, E. W. Claypole. 
Botanical Club of the A. A. A. S.—Thursday, August’ 18.— 
V. M. Spalding, President; D. G. Fairchild, Secretary. The follow- 
ing papers were read: Some Nomenclatorial Problems, N. L. Britton ; 
The Use of the Terms Range, Locality, Station, and Habitat, F. V. 
Coville; Travels in Paraguay, and Its Flora, Thomas Morong; A 
Variety of Polypodium vulgare L., New to America, L. M. Under- 
wood; Some of the Rare Mosses of White Top and Vicinity, recently 
Collected on a Trip to Sonthwestern Virginia (with specimens), Mrs. 
E. G. Britton; Symbiotic Growths in the Roots of Ranunculace. 
(Presented by W. R. Dudley), T. B. Maxwell; Galvanotropism, J. C. 
Arthur; Anatomy as a Special Department of Botany, Emily L. 
Gregory; A Botanical Terminology, A. A. Crozier; Notes on Some 
Pear and Apple Diseases, M. B. Waite; Modifications of the Tomato 
Plant Resulting from Seed Selection, E. S. Goff; Some Rare and 
Interesting Fungi from Florida (with specimens), W. T. Swingle. 
Friday, August 19.—Observations Upon Certain Species of Ascle- 
piadaceæ as Insect Traps, Thomas Morong. 
Monday, August 22.—General Notes on the Cryptogamic Flora 
of Liberia, O. F. Cook ; Cultivated Species of Brassica, L. H. Bailey ; 
Notes on the Distribution of Plants in Florida, P. H. Rolfs; North 
American Cacti, J. M. Coulter; On the Proposed Hand-book of 
Mosses of Eastern America (with illustrations), Mrs. E. G. Britton ; 
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