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REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 



During the year, ten meetings have been held, with an average 

 attendance often persons; the largest number present at a meeting 

 being thirteen, and the smallest eight. The meetings have been 

 interesting and instructive, verbal communications on entomological 

 subjects having been made by nearly all the members and associ- 

 ates. Three new members have been elected and two associates. 

 Considerable work has been accomplished in the re-arrangement and 

 care of the collections by the Conservator and some of the members, 

 and about twenty-two hundred specimens have been added to the 

 cabinets; this does not include a thousand or more received through 

 " Entomological News " to be named. Among the most noteworthy 

 additions were 845 Mexican Coleoptera, presented by Dr. Horn ; 

 types of Tachinidae, by C. H. T. Townsend; the Stone collection of 

 spiders, 160 species in 400 vials, by Mr. Witmer Stone; types of 

 Jassidge, by E. P. Van Duzee ; 35 species of Aculeate Hymenoptera, 

 by Charles Robertson ; a collection of Japanese and Indian Lepi- 

 doptera, presented by Mrs. L. Stevens through Dr. H. C. McCook : 

 American and European Odonata presented by P. P. Calvert 

 and the insect collection brought home by the Peary Relief 

 Expedition. The Section has published during the year Vol. 3, 

 of the Entomological News, with the financial aid and encouragement 

 of the American Entomological Society. The volume closed with 

 268 pages and ten plates. The journal will be continued with 

 32 or more pages a month, and will be regularly illustrated. It is 

 now just double the size of Vol. 1, which contained 16 pages per 

 month, and no illustrations. It is the only regularly illustrated 

 entomological journal in the world. 



At the last meeting, on December 12th, the following were elected 

 to serve as officers for the ensuing year : 



Director, Geo. H. Horn. 



Vice-Director, . 

 Conservator, 

 Recorder, 

 Treasurer, 



Publication Committee, 



I. C. Martin dale. 



Henry Skinner. 



Henry Skinner. 



E. T. Cresson. 



j J. H. Ridings, 

 ( Philip Laurent. 



Henry Skinner, 



Recorder. 



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