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by the odor of the serous exudation following the withdrawal of 

 the carrier's proboscis. He stated that Cuterebra parasitizes 

 only thin-skinned hosts, and has developed no carrier habit to 

 enable it to extend its parasitism to such thick-skinned hosts as 

 man, cattle, dogs, etc., as has evidently occurred in the case of 

 Dermatobia, which was probably likewise confined originally to 

 thin-skinned hosts; that this has probably been due to a less 

 acute sense of smell in Cuterebra, which has the third antenna! 

 joint atrophied, while Dermatobia has the same very well developed. 

 Dr. Townsend gave various details, all of which he considered to 

 uphold the above mentioned deductions. 



TWO-HUNDRED AND NlNETY-FlFTH MEETING, 

 MAY 4, 1916. 



The 295th meeting of the Society was entertained by Mr. 

 Frederick Knab at the Saengerbund Hall, May 4, 1916. There 

 were present Messrs, Baker, Boving, Burgess, Busck, Crawford, 

 Cushman, Ely, Gahan, Greene, Howard, Jennings, Kewley, 

 Knab, Kotinsky, Middleton, Morrison, Rohwer, Sanford, Sass- 

 cer, Schwarz, Shannon, Snyder, and Townsend, members, and 

 R. M. Fouts and Frank Morton Jones, visitors. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced the resignation from 

 the Society of Mr. O. G. Babcock and Mr. A. A. Girault. 



Mr. Harold Morrison of the Federal Horticultural Board was 

 elected to active membership. 



Mr. Schwarz announced the election of Dr. L. O. Howard 

 as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and it was 

 ordered that his remarks be incorporated in the Proceedings of 

 the Society and that the Society extend congratulations to Dr. 

 Howard. 



Mr. Schwarz remarks were as follows: 



I take pleasure in announcing to the Society that our fellow 

 member, Dr. L. O. Howard, has, in April last, been elected a 

 member of the National Academy of Sciences. This is the highest 

 honor that can be bestowed on any scientific man in the United 

 States and all of us will agree that this honor was well earned by 

 Dr. Howard. He has done a good deal of meritorious work in 



