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JUNE 7, 1894. 



The President, Mr. Ashmead, in the chair, and Messrs. Riley, 

 Schwarz, CoquilJett, Marx, Sudworth, McGee, Stiles. Johnson, 

 Pergande, Heidemann, Fernow, Benton, De Schweinitz, Chit- 

 tenden, Waite, Linell, Pratt, Gill, Howard, Marlatt, Kuehling 

 present. Mr. Chas. Palm, of New York city, was elected a 

 corresponding member. 



President Ashmead made some brief remarks, congratulating 

 the Society upon having attained its one hundredth meeting and 

 upon its prosperous career and prospects. 



The Recording Secretary, Mr. Howard, read the following : 



A REVIEW OF THE WORK OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



During the First Ten Years of its Existence. 

 By L. O. HOWARD. 



It is so true and self-evident as to be almost trite that those 

 exalted personages who have charge of the destinies of nations 

 should be thoroughly informed in the history of the nations which 

 they govern, in order to be best fitted to control their future intelli 

 gently and successfully. It is equally true that it behooves the 

 individual to pause at certain periods of his career and indulge in 

 retrospect to weigh his past actions and their results ; to indulge, 

 it may be, in regrets, vain in semblance, but instructive and use 

 ful in their possible influence upon his future. So, since this 

 Society, which we have all helped to build up, has worked steadily 

 away for ten years without a stop, this one hundredth meeting 

 affords us a chance to look back over what we have done 

 and to acquaint ourselves with the results and with the means 

 by which they have been brought about, and such a review of our 

 uneventful but steadily prosperous career it has fallen to me to 

 prepare. 



For several years before the foundation of this Society there had 

 been a strong feeling among the few of us associated in the Depart 

 ment of Agriculture that an entomological society was almost a 

 necessity, and in February, 1884, Dr. Riley, Mr. Schwarz, and 

 the writer drew up the call which resulted in the founding of the 

 "Entomological Society of Washington." The prime mover and 

 person with whom the idea really originated was Professor Riley. 



The meeting for organization was held at Professor Riley's 

 house, February 29, 1884, and was attended by Dr. W. S. Bar- 



