4/8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., ' l6 



bers are urged to make early hotel reservations in order that there 

 may be no difficulty in securing satisfactory accommodations. 



The meeting at New York promises to be well attended. Attention 

 is called to a resolution passed by the Association several years ago 

 providing that papers by non-members cannot be admitted to the pro- 

 gram. 



Blank applications for membership may be secured from the Secre- 

 tary or from Prof. W. C. O'Kane, chairman of the membership com- 

 mittee, Durham, N. H. It will greatly facilitate the work of that Com- 

 mittee if applications are made as soon as possible, so that a large 

 part of its work may be done before the time of the meeting. A. F. 

 BURGESS, Secretary, Melrose Highlands, Mass. 



Fourteenth Annual Meeting, American Society of Zoologists. 



The American Society of Zoologists, in conjunction with Section F 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the 

 American Society of Naturalists, will hold its fourteenth annual meet- 

 ing, under the auspices of Columbia University, probably in the lecture 

 room in Schermerhorn Hall, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 

 December 27-29, 1916. 



Four half day sessions will be devoted to the reading of papers, one 

 to the business of the Society and one, in accordance with by-law 4b, 

 will be given to a meeting with the Naturalists. 



Members are invited to send titles of papers for the program but a 

 title will not be placed on the program unless it is accompanied by an 

 abstract and reaches the Secretary by December I. 



Papers on Genetics will be scheduled for the session to be held on 

 Thursday afternoon as directed by the Society at the Columbus meet- 

 ing, otherwise the program will be arranged in accordance with by- 

 law 5 and members are requested to indicate the general subject under 

 which each paper should be listed. 



In view of the prospect that the program for this meeting will be 

 long, the Secretary is directed by the Executive Committee to suggest 

 to members that they restrict themselves to one paper, and to announce 

 that, if found to be necessary, those papers considered by the Execu- 

 tive Committee to be of least general interest will be read by title. Not 

 more than fifteen minutes will be allowed for the presentation of any 

 paper. 



Abstracts of papers should be typewritten and put in the exact form 

 desired in print. They should be limited to four pages and contain no 

 illustrations. All abstracts will be printed by the Wistar Institute and 

 mailed with the program to members o'f the Society about December 9. 

 Reprints of abstracts, in case they are desired, may be secured by 

 arrangement with the Director of the Wistar Institute, The printed 



