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SPECIAL MEETING, SEPT. 16, 1895. 



President Ashmeacl, in calling the meeting to order, stated 

 that it had been called to take appropriate action on the death of 

 Dr. C. V. Riley. 



Mr. Howard moved that the chair appoint a committee of 

 three to draft the necessary resolutions. Seconded by Mr. 

 Schwarz, and adopted. , 



The charr appointed Messrs. Howard, Schwarz, and Hubbard. 

 This committee reported the following resolutions : 



WHEREAS, The Entomological Society of Washington has lost by the 

 hand of death its founder, its former President, and its most prominent 

 member, Dr. Charles Valentine Riley, therefore be it 



Resolved^ That the Society, through its Secretary, transmit to the family 

 of its late member its deepest sympathy and an expression of its realiza 

 tion of its own irreparable loss, in the future absence from its councils, of 

 one of the most eminent entomologists of modern times, and of a man to 

 whom most of the members owed much in the way of advice and encour 

 agement. 



Resolved^ That the Society in the next number of its Proceedings 

 shall publish an account of the life and work of its late founder. 



Upon motion of Mr. Marlatt, the report of the committee 

 was adopted. 



Mr. Schwarz moved that the Publication Committee be 

 charged with the preparation of a biography of Dr. Riley. 

 Adopted. 



The Society then adjourned. 



CHARLES V. RILEY, PH. D. 



The sudden death of Dr. Riley, on September 14, 1895, was 

 the severest loss which could possibly have befallen the Entomo 

 logical Society of Washington, for he was the founder of the 

 Society, the person in whom the idea of the establishment of the 

 Society first orignated ; he was by all means the most prominent 

 and best known member of the Society ; and he was, at the 

 same time, one of its most active members. .He was its first 

 President and almost continuously during the eleven years of its 



