REPOET 



OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE THOMPSON FUND, HARTFORD MEETING, 



AUGUST, 1874. 



THE Standing Committee of the Association at the Portland Meeting ap- 

 pointed the undersigned a Committee with full power to accept and print such 

 papers as they might deem of sufficient importance to he published by the donation 

 of Mrs. Thompson. 



In accordance with the duties assigned to them, the Committee have accepted 

 the Memoir by Mr. Scudder on Fossil Butterflies as the first paper to be published 

 by the THOMPSOK FUND, and while regretting that the unavoidable delay in 

 engraving the plates prevents their having the gratification of presenting the 

 work at the present Meeting, they believe that the Association and its liberal 

 patron will accept the Memoir as one in every Avay worthy of the honor thus 

 bestowed. 



ASA GRAY, 



JAMES HALL, 



THOMAS HILL, 



P. H. VAN DEU WEYDE, ( '<nnniill . 



J. L. LECONTE, 



T. STERUY HUNT, 



F. W. PUTNAM, 



