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to devote necessary time to the additional task. The reading of 

 the proof of the index, especially, has been most exacting, and 

 occasion is taken to make grateful acknowledgment to Mr. William 

 J. Fox and Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry for efficient assistance in this 

 tiresome and laborious work. Mr. Fox also gave indispensable 

 assistance in the preparation of the centenary volume. 



The ordinary meetings have been addressed by Messrs. Leffman, 

 Calvert, Stewardson Brown, Tucker, Bailey, Smith, Harshberger, 

 Dahlgren, Spitzka, Trotter, Bascom, and Skinner. 



Fifty-three papers have been presented for publication, as follows: 

 Edgar T. Wherry, 3; James A. G. Rehn and Morgan Hebard, 3; 

 Henrj- A. Pilsbry and Amos P. Brown, 2; Henry W. Fowler, 2; 

 Edward G. Vanatta, 2; Witmer Stone, 2; Thomas H. Montgomery, 

 1; John M. Clarke, 1; J. A. Nelson, 1; Carlotta J. Maury, 1; 

 Harriet W. Wardle, 1; Frederick W. True, 1; Henry Skinner, 1; 

 'Florence Bascom, 1; George A. Boulenger, 1; John W. Harshberger, 

 1 ; Thomas Wayland Vaughan, 1 ; Spencer Trotter, 1 ; George Howard 

 Parker, 1; Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, 1; J. W. von Wijhe, 1; 

 Marshall A. Howe, 1; W. J. Holland, 1; William H. Dall, 1; Benjamin 

 Smith Lyman, 1; Henry G. Bryant, 1; A. N. Caudell and Morgan 

 Hebard, 1; John M. Macfarlane, 1; Henry H. Donaldson, 1; 

 George A. Koenig, 1; Thomas H. Morgan, 1; Clarence B. Moore, 

 1 ; James E. Ives, 1 ; Addison E. Verrill, 1 ; Henry F. Osborn, 1 ; 

 Harold S. Colton, 1; S. Stillman Berry, 1; W T . L. McAtee, 1; T. 

 Fukuda, 1; Edwin G. Conklin, 1; Harold Heath and Ernest B. 

 McGregor, 1; Burnett Smith, 1; Henry A. Pilsbry, 1; H. von Ihering, 

 1; R. W. Shufeldt, 1. 



Four of these have been withdrawn by the authors, twenty- 

 four are contributions to the Journal, and the others constitute 

 the portions of the year's Proceedings so far issued. 



Mr. Moore's paper concludes the fourteenth volume of the 

 Journal. It consists of 161 pages, beautifully illustrated with 

 many halftones in the text and eight superb plates in color, fully 

 sustaining the reputation established by the earlier publications of 

 Mr. Moore, to whom the Academy is as usual indebted for the 

 entire cost of issue. ' 



The commemorative volume of the Journal consists of 756 pages 

 and 59 plates, 6 of which are in colors. 



Additional publications have been issued during the year as 

 follows: Proceedings, 550 pages, 21 plates; Entomological News, 

 484 pages, 20 plates; Transactions of the American Entomo- 



