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The election of officers then took place, resulting as follows : 
President, Mr. E. A. Schwarz ; ist Vice-President, Dr. C. V. 
Riley ; 2d Vice-President, Dr. George Marx ; Recording Secre- 
tary, Mr. John B. Smith ; Corresponding Secretary, Mr. O. Lug- 
ger ; Treasurer, Mr, B. P. Mann ; Members of Executive Com- 
mittee, Mr. L. O. Howard, Mr. Theo. Pergande, Dr. W. H. Fox. 
The retiring President then read his Annual Address, as follows : 
ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 
A COMMENCEMENT OF A STUDY OF THE PARASITES OF COSMOPOLITAN 
INSECTS. 
BY L. O. HOWARD. 
The desirability of a general compilation of the parasitic rela- 
tions of all parasitic Hymenoptera has been forced upon me in my 
study of these forms, and I have for some time been engaged in 
recording in spare moments such relations wherever published, 
with a view of bringing out in two great tables the parasites and 
the insects from which they have been reared, arranged, first, ac- 
cording to the classification of the parasites, and, second, accord- 
ing to classification of the insects parasitized. Whenever, in 
making these records, the insect playing the part of host (victim 
seems a better word) has chanced, to my knowledge, to be a cos- 
mopolite, or at least to occur in both Europe and North America, 
I have considered its parasites with greater interest, and the idea 
which I had long since conceived, and which I have not seen for- 
mulated elsewhere, that the comparative study of the parasites of 
such species would be followed with results of considerable inter- 
est, and possibly of some practical value, has occurred to me with 
added force. This recording has advanced so far at the present 
time that I have been able to accumulate sufficient facts for a pre- 
liminary paper on this subject, which, it strikes me, is so broad 
in its interest and so well calculated to appeal to entomologists of 
all specialties that it is well adapted to an address of this kind. 
In advance of a consideration of the actual records it is obvious 
that a plain tabulated statement, such as I shall give, will be of 
use in the following ways : It will be a slight help in determina- 
tion of parasites ; it will be an indication of possible synonymy 
