THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 177 



ENTOMOLOGICAL AND OTHER MEETINGS AT 



WASHINGTON. 



The annual programme of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science has just been issued. For a fortnight continuously 

 meetings of great scientific interest will be held in Washington. In the 

 whole of America there is no place which can compare with the American 

 capital as a suitable place for such meetings. Not only is it the social 

 and political centre of the Union, but here also are the headquarters of 

 the various government scientific departments. To naturalists objects 

 of great attraction will be the Smithsonian Institution, the National 

 Museum, the Aquarium, the Botanical Gardens, National Zoological 

 Gardens, and many other places of general interest. Several other 

 scientific bodies have arranged to hold their meetings previous to the 

 meetings of the American Association. The American Microscopical 

 Society, Aug. 11-12. The Association of American Agricultural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations will meet Aug. 12 in the Law Lecture 

 Room of Columbia University. On Aug. 13th the Association of Official 

 Agricultural Chemists will begin its sessions, and a conference of 

 American Chemists will be held on the 17th or iSth. On Monday, 17th, 

 the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science will hold its first 

 meeting, and also on the same day the Association of Economic Entomo- 

 logists, of which our own Vice-President, Mr. James Fletcher, of Ottawa, 

 is the presiding ofiicer for this year. The Entomological Club of the 

 American Association will meet on Aug. 19th. A joint circular has been 

 issued by Mr. Fletcher and Prof. Osborn, President of the Entomological 

 Club, urging entomologists to attend the meetings, and suggesting that 

 papers referring especially to economic entomology might, for con- 

 venience, be best presented before the Association, while notes, items, 

 discoveries of scientific interest, etc., might be referred to the Club, and 

 authors are requested to send in beforehand titles of their papers to the 

 proper secretaries, viz.: — 



Mr. L. O. Howard, Secretary Association of Economic Entomologists, 

 Washington, D.C. 



Dr. C. M. Weed, Secretary Entomological Club, A.A.A.S., Hanover, 

 New Hampshire. 



This arrangement, we feel sure, will tend to make both of these meet- 

 ings more successful, and will allow Entomologists attending to be 

 present at all the sessions of both organizations. 



