Vol. XXVII, pp. ix-xiii 
PROCEEDINGS 
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BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 
PROCEEDINGS. 
The Society meets in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Cliih 
on alternate Saturdays at 8 p. m. 
January 10, 1914—519th Meeting. 
President Paid Bartsch in the chair and 46 persons present. 
William Palmer exhibited the skull of a yonng opossum found 
dead with a persimmon seed lodged in its throat; death had 
been caused hy starvation. 
Alex Wetmore reported the presence of large numbers of 
starlings in Washington. 
Paul Bartsch reported having recently seen a black vulture 
near Washington. 
The regular program was a continuation of the discussion on 
Parallel Development. Leonhard Stejnegcr, Thomas Barbour, 
Barton W. Kvermann, Theodore Gill, Paul Bartsch, A. D. 
Hopkins and W'illiam Palmer took ])art. 
January 24, 1914 —520th Meeting. 
President Bartsch in the chair and 49 persons present. 
The program consisted of three communications, as follows: 
“ Winter Bird Life in the Swamps of Alabama ” : E. G. Holt. 
“Pollen Protection in the Flowers of Acacia and 
W. E. Safford. 
“ The Prohlem of the Gliding Gull William Palmer. 
February 7, 1914—521st Meeting. 
President Bartsch in the chair and 80 j)ersons pn'sent. 
Barton W. Evermann exhibited a model of a peculiar trap, 
called the Klips, used in capturing fur animals by natives of 
the Aleutian Islands. 
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