PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



At the meeting of the Board of Managers on January lo, 1919, 

 it was voted to turn over the accumulated exchanges and miscellaneous 

 publications owned by the Academy to the lyibrarian of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, with the request that he first complete the files of the In- 

 stitution where possible, and then distribute the remainder in what- 

 ever manner will make the publications most useful to scientific libraries. 



The following persons have become members of the Academy since 

 the last issue of the Journal: 



Mrs. Agnes Chase, Bureau of Plant Industry", U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. John Bright Ferguson, Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Morris Hacker, District Building, Washington, D. C. (Nomi- 

 nated as Vice-President by the Washington Society of Engineers.) 



Dr. Eugen W. Posnjak, Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. SiEVERT Allen Rohwer, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Robert B. Sosman, Corresponding Secretary. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP WASHINGTON 



The 318th regular meeting of the Society was held in the hall of the 

 Carnegie Institution, January 8, 19 19. There were present 32 mem- 

 bers and 5 \'isitors. 



The President read the following Ust of members of the Society who 

 have been in the military service: Captains D. L. Van Dine, A. H. 

 Jennings, J. D. Hood, E. H. Gibson, and G. F. White; Lieutenants 

 W. H. White, L. H. Dunn, and E. W. Scott; Sergeant R. C. Shannon, 

 and Privates Wm. Middleton and C. A. Weigel, while Dr. O. H. 

 Basseches was in training camp at the signing of the armistice. Of 

 these Captain A. R. Jennings has died in the service. The President 

 appointed Dr. W. D. Pierce, Mr. August Busck, and Dr. A. G. 

 Boving as a committee to draw up a memorial and prepare a bibliog- 

 raphy of Captain Jennings. 



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