ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY, 1917. 



The Convocation Week Meetings A Retrospect. 



All expected a series of large meetings at New York City 

 during Convocation week, and expectations were fully realized. 

 We have no figures showing the number of persons present 

 at the sessions of the various societies, but elsewhere in this 

 issue, page 88, we give a list of the titles of papers presented 

 and some statistics for comparison with those of previous 

 years. It is always the case that some papers are merely read 

 by title, but there seems to be no reason to think that a pro- 

 portionally greater number of authors and speakers were ab- 

 sent when their names were called at New York than at other 

 places in previous years. The total number of papers of ento- 

 mological bearing is 139 as compared with the highest earlier 

 total of 96 for the Philadelphia meeting of Convocation week, 

 1914. Floreat Entomologia! 



On the social side are to be mentioned the common head- 

 quarters of the Entomological Society of America and the 

 American Association of Economic Entomologists at the Hotel 

 Endicott, enabling many entomologists to meet each other out- 

 side of the meetings, and conveniently situated for visiting the 

 collections of the American Museum of Natural History. On 

 Wednesday evening, December 27, the visiting entomologists 

 were pleasantly entertained at supper, at the Museum, under 

 the care of Dr. F. E. Lutz and the Entomological Societies of 

 New York and Brooklyn. Following came the annual address 

 of the Entomological Society of America, given in the same 

 Museum by Professor T. D. A. Cockerell. His excellent 

 resume on ''Fossil Insects" presented valid reasons why this 

 field. of entomology should be cultivated to a much greater 



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