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sorry that thorough investigation as to the cause of disappear 

 ance had not been made. He considered that it was probably 

 a case of a distinctively southern insect having been brought up 

 in great numbers from the south in yellow pine timber, spread 

 ing rapidly in the forests and killed off by an unusually 

 severe winter. 



Mr. Hopkins stated that in his opinion the insect could by 

 no means be called a southern species since it extends to the 

 Lake Superior region and from California to the Atlantic 

 Coast. From the studies which he had given the matter of sud 

 den disappearance he is inclined to think that the insect was 

 killed off by some fungus or bacterial disease. 



FEBRUARY 4, 1897. 



President Marlatt in the chair and Messrs. Schwarz, Ashmead, 

 Chittenden, Banks, Wait, Gill, Fernow, Motter, J. B. Thomp 

 son, Busck, Kenyon, E. C. Barnard, and Howard also present. 



President Marlatt delivered his annual address, as follows : 



