268 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Sept., '06 



of Entomological Terms" was ready for the printer, and Mr. 

 Franck that $710. had been subscribed toward the cost of the 

 publication. The price per copy was fixed at $2.00. 



Dr. Wm. Barnes, of Decatur, Illinois, was elected a member. 



The following officers for the ensuing year were then elec- 

 ted : President, Rev. J. L,. Zabriskie ; Vice-President, Edward 

 L,. Graef ; Treasurer, Christopher H. Roberts ; Corresponding 

 Secretary, Archibald C. Weeks ; Recording Secretary, George 

 P. Engelhardt ; Librarian, Roy S. Richardson ; Curator, Geo. 

 Franck ; Executive Committee, the officers above named and 

 Carl Schaeffer and Frank E. Watson ; Program Committee, 

 George Franck, Carl Schaeffer and Roy S. Richardson ; Dele- 

 gates to Scientific Alliance, of New York City, the President 

 ex-officio, Richard F. Pearsall and Archibald C. Weeks. 



February /, 1906. Sixteen persons present, the President 

 in the chair. Mr. Weeks acted as Recording Secretary in the 

 absence of Mr. Engelhardt. 



Mr. Edgar L,. Dickerson gave an outline of the scope and 

 character of the work carried on in the entomological labora- 

 tory of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station since 

 1889, embracing special investigations and methods of control 

 of the mosquito and San Jose scale and insects infesting the 

 the cranberry, squash, blackberry, etc., instruction in elemen- 

 tary entomology, formation of collections for the use of the 

 Station and the State Museum, and the preparation and distri- 

 bution of bulletins, reports, lists of insects and other entomo- 

 logical information. 



Mr. William C. Wood exhibited some microscopical slides 

 showing examples of the pollen of a species of Asdepias having 

 two small pinions with oddily jointed ribs attached to a neuc- 

 leus which was cleft sufficiently to admit of the insertion of the 

 legs and feet of butterflies visiting the plant and to which the 

 pollen adhered firmly and thus promoted fertilization as the 

 insect flitted from flower to flower. Specimens of/, aniia, P. 

 troilns, C. eubule and A. cybele, collected at Miami, Florida, in 

 June and July, with pollen clinging to their tibiae and tarsi, 

 were shown. 



ARCHIBALD C. WEEKS, Secretary. 



