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held in the evening of March i2th, r a constitution was adopted, 
officers were elected, and the names of twenty-six persons 
enrolled as charter members. Of these twenty-six original 
members, nine have passed into the great beyond, while eight 
of the others have since abandoned the study of Entomology, 
leaving only nine of the original twenty-six members still 
in the ranks, namely: Lawrence Bruner, T. L- Casey, Otto 
Heidemann, L- O. Howard, Albert Koebele, Theodore Pergande, 
H. A. Schwarz, J. B. Smith, and P. R. Uhler. It is fervently 
to be hoped that many years will pass by before this list will 
be lessened by a single name! 
During the twenty-one years of its existence our Society 
has elected ten presidents, and while our constitution is silent 
on the subject it seems early to have become an unwritten 
law that the officers elected for any particular year were to 
be re-elected for the succeeding year. This rule was followed 
with a single exception; by an apparent oversight there is no 
recorded election of officers for the year 1897; those chosen 
for the previous year simply held their offices until their 
successors were elected and qualified. Up to and including 
the year above mentioned the presidents had held office for 
the prescribed two years each and had prepared an annual 
address at the close of each term, but during the following 
three years this rule was destined to be ruthlessly broken. 
The late lamented H. G. Hubbard was elected president of the 
Society for the year 1898, but ill-health prevented him from 
attending the meetings and preparing an annual address; he 
was re-elected president for the following year, but passed 
away before a month of the new year had elapsed. From 
the date of his demise on January i8th until the i6th of the 
following May the Society had no president, but at the latter 
date the first Vice- President, Doctor Theodore Gill, was 
elected president for the balance of the unexpired term. At 
the next annual election all of the officers were re-elected for 
the year 1900. During this year, as also the portion of the 
preceding one subsequent to the month of May, the Society 
was without a first vice-president. This break in the usual 
course of events resulted in our having two presidents during 
