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Collins, Col. ; Prof. J. H. Comstock, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Prof. A. 

 J. Cook, Lansing, Mich. ; Mr. G. C. Davis, Lansing, Mich. : 

 Mr. Ottomar Dietz, New York, N. Y. ; Prof. C. H. Fernald, 

 Amherst, Mass. ; Mr. W. J. Fox, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Prof. C. 

 P. Gillette, Fort Collins, Col. ; Mr. H. A. Gossard, Ames, Iowa ; 

 Mr. Ed. L. Graef, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Prof. F. L. Harvey, Orono, 

 Maine; Mr. Samuel Henshaw, Cambridge, Mass. ; Rev. W. J. 

 Holland, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Mr. V. L. Kellogg, Lawrence, Kans. ; 

 Mr. Warren Knaus, McPherson, Kans. ; Dr. J. A. Lintner, 

 Albany, N. Y. ; Mr. F. A. Marlatt, Manhattan. Kans. ; Miss 

 Mary E. Murtfeldt, Kirkwood, Mo. ; Mr. B. Neumoegen, New 

 York, N. Y. ; Prof. P. H. Rolfs, Lake City, Fla. ; Mr. S. H. 

 Scudder, Cambridge, Mass. ; Dr. Henry Skinner, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. ; Mr. M. V. Slingerland, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Prof. F. H. Snow, 

 Lawrence, Kans. ; Mr. T. Wayland Vaughan, Mount Lebanon, 

 La. ; Prof. F. L. Washburn, Corvallis, Ore. ; Dr. C. M. Weed, 

 Hanover, N. H. ; Dr. Wm. M. Wheeler, Worcester, Mass. ; and 

 Dr. S. W. Williston, Lawrence, Kans. 



Dr. Geo. Marx presented the first paper of the evening, entitled 

 " Remarks on two new publications* on the Territelaria3 of the 

 United States, by N. Banks and Eug. Simon." He first drew 

 attention to a matter which he had emphasized in his last presi 

 dential address, i. <?., that one of the great obstacles to the prog 

 ress of Arachnology was the absence of a well-determined col 

 lection, where the types of all American species would be access 

 ible to the student. The unfortunate results of the absence of 

 such a collection were illustrated in the case of the two publi 

 cations named, both of which covered practically the same 

 ground. He contrasted the two papers, one of which that of 

 Mr. Banks was based on literature now out of date and was 

 written without the aid of type specimens ; while the other was 

 based on fuller knowledge, better command of the literature, and 

 an acquaintance with the types. He gave an account of the 

 writings on this group of Arachnids, and deplored the conditions 

 Which led to the publication of necessarily incomplete and inac- 



* Our Atypidse and Theraphosidae. By Nathan Banks. Entomological 

 News, 1892, p. 147. 



Liste des especes de la famille des Avicularidae qui habitant PAmerique 

 du Nord. Par E. Simon. Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, 1891. 



