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degree than has ever yet been the case. This evening closed 

 with an enjoyable smoker to visiting naturalists at the Aqua- 

 rium, offered by the New York Zoological Society. There was 

 the usual dinner of the American Society of Naturalists on 

 Friday evening, December 29, at which Dr. Raymond Pearl 

 gave an illuminating presidential address on the present status 

 of natural selection. The same society held a session on Sat- 

 urday morning, December 30, at Cold Spring Harbor, Long 

 Island, and afterwards inspected the Eugenics Record Office 

 and the Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution, under 

 the kind attention and hospitality of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Da- 

 venport, Drs. Blaikslie, Harris, Riddle, Banta and their asso- 

 ciates. 



The annual question of arrangement of the meetings of the 

 Entomological Society and of the Economic Entomologists so 

 that there shall be no important conflict between the interests 

 of the two bodies came up again, accentuated by the large in- 

 crease in papers on the Economic program. Hitherto, the 

 programs of the two bodies have not overlapped to any great 

 degree. It does not seem possible to maintain this condition 

 of affairs any longer and one suggestion (which, we believe, 

 we received from Dr. W. Riley), that the Section of Horticul- 

 tural Inspection meet at the same hours as the Entomological 

 Society, seems to offer a partial and not very objectionable 

 way of solving the difficulties of conflicting meetings. 



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QUESTION No. 4. Can anyone advise me as to where I can have 

 foreign specimens of Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and other orders of in- 

 sects determined as to specific names? Alost of my material is from 

 Japan. HARRY L. JOHNSON, So. Meriden, Conn. 



