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use their book have already acquired such information. Patton and 

 Cragg, on the contrary, give very full accounts of the anatomy and 

 physiology. 



The twelfth chapter of Riley and Johannsen consists of Keys to the 

 Arthropods noxious to Man. There is an up-to-date bibliography of 

 14 pages arranged alphabetically under authors' names, and the 8 page 

 index. P. P. C. (Advertisement.) 



Doings of Societies. 



English and German Entomological Societies and the War. 



At its meeting of November 4, 1914, the Entomological Society of 

 London adopted the "Reply to the Declaration of German Professors" 

 in regard to the present war which was published in the London Times 

 of October 21. The "Declaration" and the "Reply" are reproduced in 

 full in the Proceedings of the Society for 1914, pp. xc.-xciv. Prof. 

 Auguste Lameere, of Brussels, was elected on December 2, 1914, to the 

 Honorary Fellowship vacant by the resignation and subsequent death 

 of Dr. August Weismann. 



The Deutsche Entomologische Gesellschaft of Berlin, at its meeting 

 of September 7, 1914, unanimously adopted the following resolutions : 

 I. During the war only one official meeting will be held on the first 

 Monday of each month, the others are not compulsory. 2. The Society 

 assigns paper to the nominal value of 500 marks to the Red Cross 

 and to the National Fund for the families of those fallen in the war. 

 Herr Blume, Jr., member, was wounded at Ypres; Herren Ahlwarth 

 and Speiser are in the field. 



Chicago Entomological Club. 



Meeting of January 17, 1915, at the home of Charles Selinger, eleven 

 members attending. 



Considering the likelihood that a number of entomological enthusi- 

 asts would stop over at Chicago on their way to the Panama Exposi- 

 tion, it was suggested that it would be desirable to serve such visitors 

 to the best of our ability and enable them to meet those similarly in- 

 terested. It was therefore decided to invite all prospective visitors to 

 correspond with the secretary and advise him of their plans, so that 

 suitable arrangements can be made. The secretary was further au- 

 thorized to call upon the members of the club for any necessary assist- 

 ance. 



As an attraction entomologically, Chicago has the Strecker collection 

 of Lepidoptera, which is at the Field Museum of Natural History, be- 

 sides several large private collections of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, 

 one of Hemiptera and several general collections. 



Lepidoptera. Lepidopterists had as a subject the genus 

 Hadcna, which was informally discussed. Local captures in this genus 



