480 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec., 'l6 



There will be a joint smoker for members of the Naturalists and of 

 the affiliated societies at Columbia University Commons, Wednesday 

 evening, December 27th. 



Members of the American Society of Naturalists are invited by the 

 Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution to spend Saturday, De- 

 cember 3Oth, at Cold Spring Harbor. A morning session from 10.30 to 

 I will be held in Blackford Hall for the presentation of genetical 

 papers. After a lunch there will be opportunity to inspect the equip- 

 ment of the Station, the activities of which will be explained by the 

 staff. Arrangements for trains will be announced in the final program. 



Headquarters of the Naturalists will be at the Hotel Manhattan, 

 Forty-second Street. Members are advised to make early reservations. 

 Single rooms, $2.50; with bath, $3.50. Double rooms, $4.00 up; with 

 bath, $5.00 up. BRADLEY M. DAVIS, Sccietary. University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Philadelphia. 



The Ecological Society of America, Announcement. 



NEW YORK MEETING. A meeting of the Society will be held in New 

 York on December 27 to 29, 1916, sessions being arranged as follows : 



Wednesday, December 27. 9 a. m., business meeting; ro a. m., Ses- 

 sion for the reading of papers of general ecological interest. 



Thursday, December 28. 10 a. m., Session for the reading of papers 

 of zoological interest. 2 p. m., Session for the reading of papers of in- 

 terest to foresters, agriculturists and climatologists. 



Friday, December 29. 10 a. m., Joint session with the Botanical So- 

 ciety of America for the reading of papers of botanical interest. 2 

 p. m., Invited papers. 



Further details regarding the meeting will be announced soon. 



CLIMATOLOGICAL COMMITTEE. The President of the Society has ap- 

 pointed a permanent committee on climatological conditions and the 

 measurement of physical factors. It will be the function of this com- 

 mittee to stimulate the investigation of environmental conditions and 

 the securing of climatological data which are of ecological significance. 

 It will supervise all of the cooperative investigations undertaken by 

 the Society in these fields. 



The members of the committee are B. E. Livingston, Qhairman ; Ly- 

 man J. Briggs, A. E. Cameron, D. T. MacDougal, W. Dwight Pierce, 

 E. C. Schneider, Forrest Shreve and Raphael Zon. Other members 

 will be added as the work of the committee develops. At the invita- 

 tion of the Weather Bureau the members of this committee will con- 

 fer with a representative of the Bureau regarding desirable extensions 

 in the scope of the data now secured by them. 



FORREST SHREVE, Secretary-Treasurer. 

 TUCSON, ARIZONA, November 3, 1916. 



