Feb., '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 59 



Your committee therefore recommends the selection by this 

 meeting of a committee of three, not members of any of the 

 societies named below, whose duties shall be : 



1. To communicate with the American Entomological 

 Society, the New York Entomological Society, the Entomolo- 

 gical Society of Washington, the Cambridge Entomological 

 Club, the Entomological Society of Ontario, and the Pacific 

 Coast Entomological Society, requesting each to select some 

 member to represent his society on this committee. 



2. As soon as four of these socities shall have elected mem- 

 bers of the committee, the entire committee shall prepare a 

 constitution and by-laws and plan of work for a proposed 

 American Society of Entomologists, and report them at such 

 time and place during 1905 as shall seem to them most likely 

 to find the greatest number of entomologists assembled. 

 Notice of this meeting to be first published in ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 NEWS and the Canadian Entomologist. 



3. This committee shall also arrange a program of discus- 

 sion on some entomological topic for the proposed meeting. 



(Signed) J. CHESTER BRADLEY, 

 H. T. FERNALD, 

 E. D. SANDERSON. 



The President and Messrs. Summers and Titus spoke their 

 appreciation of this movement. On motion the report was 

 adopted, and the chair instructed to appoint a committee, 

 which was done as follows : John B. Smith, C. P. Gillette 

 and J. G. Needham. 



The President spoke of the history of American entomology, 

 especially of Thomas Say. The " Father of American Ento- 

 mology " had lived under peculiar conditions ; it was recorded 

 that at times he had slept under specimens in the museum and 

 lived on eight cents per day. The speaker exhibited a book 

 which had belonged to Say and was presented to the American 

 Entomological Society by his wife, Lucy W. Say. In this book 

 was the imprint of a butterfly's wing which had been made by 

 transferring the scales on to a pasted surface. The only extant 

 type of any of Say's species was shown. The Academy of 



