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Banks, in the chair. The following persons were present: 

 Messrs. Ashmead, Barber, Banks, Burke, Busck, Caudell, 

 Currie, Doolittle, Dyar, Gill, Girault, Heidemann, Hooker, 

 Hopkins, Hunter, Knab, Patten, E. F. Phillips, Pierce, Piper, 

 Quaintance, Schwarz, Titus, Uhler, Webb, and Webster, mem 

 bers, and Messrs. F. C. Bishopp, Douglas H. demons, Fred 

 Johnson, J. D. Mitchell, A. C. Morgan, and E. R. Sasscer, 

 visitors. 



In the course of his report the Corresponding Secretary 

 announced that Dr. L. O. Howard had recently been elected 

 an honorary member of the Entomological Society of France 

 and an honorary member of the Society of Economic Biolo 

 gists, of England. 



The Executive Committee reported that Dr. Wm. H. Ash- 

 mead had been nominated by them to represent the Entomo 

 logical Society as a Vice-President of the Washington Acad 

 emy of Sciences. 



The Publication Committee reported that at their meeting 

 of December 8, 1905, they had voted to continue the quarterly 

 publication of the PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SO 

 CIETY OF WASHINGTON. By motion of the Society the report 

 of the Committee was adopted. 



The following new members were elected: Active, Messrs. 

 J. H. Beattie, I. J. Condit, J. G. Sanders, and E. R. Sasscer, of 

 the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture; 

 corresponding, Messrs. F. C. Bishopp, Fred Johnson, A. C. 

 Morgan, and C. E. Sanborn, of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Miss Ella Frances Hall, of 

 Amherst, Mass., and Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, of 25 Broad 

 street, New York, N. Y. 



Mr. Banks then read his annual address as president for the 

 year 1905, as follows : 



