BENEFITS

Membership in the Biological Society of Washington entitles you to a subscription to the Society's Proceedings, which are published quarterly, and a subscription to the Society's Bulletins which are published irregularly.

PROCEEDINGS

For over a century the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington has been an important international forum for the publication of systematics papers in the biological sciences. Each volume of the Proceedings comprises about 800 pages, and contains approximately 75 refereed original papers. Representative articles from sample fields include:

• Entomology: New species and records of Neotropical Sisyridae with special reference to Sisyra (Insecta: Neuroptera), O. S. Flint
• Botany: New taxa and combinations of Ageratina from Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela (Eupatoriae: Oxylobinae), H. Robinson
• Paleontology: A new species of night-heron (Ardeidae: Nyctanassa) from quaternary deposits on Bermuda, S. L. Olson & D. B. Wingate
• Vertebrates: The Northern Snakehead Channa argus (Anabantomorpha: Channidae), a non-indigenous fish species in the Potomac River, U.S.A., T. M. Orrell & L. Weigt
• Invertebrates: Revision of Pylopagurus and Tomopagurus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae), with descriptions of new genera and species, Addendum and taxonomic summary. R. Lemaitre & P.A. McLaughlin
  

BULLETIN

Larger studies, symposia proceedings, and special collections of articles are published from time to time in the Society's Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. Representative Bulletins include:

• Commemorative volume for the 80th birthday of Frederick M. Bayer in 2001 (Octocorallia, Scleractinia, Porifera, Cephalopoda, Mollusca, et al.), S. D. Cairns and C. G. Messing, eds.
• Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversity of an equitorial African rainforest, A. Alonso et al., eds.
• Checklist of the vascular plants of Plummers Island, Maryland, S.G. Shetler et al., eds.
  

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