PROCEEDI N GS 



JANUARY QTH, 1890. 



Nine persons present. President Schwarz in the chair. 



Mr. H. W. Wenzel, of Philadelphia, was elected a corres 

 ponding member. 



The election of officers for 1:890 resulted as follows : 



President, George Marx ; ist Vice-President, C. V. Riley ; 

 2d Vice-President, L. O. Howard ; Recording Secretary, C. L. 

 Marlatt ; Corresponding Secretary, C. H. Tyler Townsend ; 

 Treasurer, B. P. Mann ; Members of Executive Committee, 

 K. A. Schwarz, Otto Heideinann, Wm. H. Fox. 



The retiring President delivered his Annual Address : 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



NORTH AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 



BY E. A. SCHWARZ. 



Since the year 1876 w r e have witnessed or taken part in the 

 celebration of several centennials the Centennial of the Decla 

 ration of Independence, the Yorktown Centennial, the Wash 

 ington Inauguration Centennial, and others all in commemo 

 ration of the political birth of the American nation. But I 

 have never read nor heard that, during this time, the American 

 entomologists have celebrated the centennials in their own 

 science. In the year 1880 we should have remembered that 

 two hundred years ago the first paper on insects was written 

 in America, viz : John Banister's "Some Observations concern 

 ing Insects, made in Virginia, A. D. 1680," which was pub 

 lished, with remarks, by Petiver, in 1701, the paper being 

 written before the modern conception of scientific research, and 

 therefore only of historical interest. On July 27, 1887, we 



