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PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY, 1912. 



The Christmas week meetings of Entomologists in Wash- 

 ington, in affiliation with the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, were felt by those in attendance to 

 have been a decided success. Roth the Entomological Society 

 of America and the American Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists met in the same room in the top (fourth) story of 

 the United States National Museum, near the quarters of the 

 Department of Insects, the Society on Tuesday morning and 

 afternoon, December 26, and Wednesday morning. December 

 27; the Association on Wednesday afternoon. Thursday and 

 Friday, December 27 to 29. 



Twenty-three papers were listed on the printed program of 

 the Society, at least four of which were not given owing to 

 the absence of their authors or to the lack of time at the dis- 

 posal of the Society, which has not yet applied a time limit to 

 papers presented, as was suggested in the NEWS for November 

 last. As it is planned to publish in Science brief abstracts of 

 the papers given, and as the program and many of the papers 

 themselves will also appear in the /hnwls. the program will 

 not be printed in the NEWS. The Annual Public Address of 

 the Society was given by Prof. J. H. Comstock, on Wednesday 

 evening, December 27, in the auditorium of the Cosmos Club. 

 The topic selected, "On Some Biological Features of Spiders 



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