OF WASHINGTON^ VOLUMK XI, 1909. 



XC OF FF.MKr.NKY 11, 1909. 



The 228th regular meeting of the Society was held at the 

 home of Mr. J. D. I 'alien. 2212 R street N.W., on the even- 

 ing of February 11. 1 ( >U U , with the President in the chair and 

 the following present: Messrs. Ainslie, JJarber, Benton, l>ur- 

 gess, l">urke, Ilusck. Casey, Caudell, demons, Crawford, Cur- 



rie, Dyar, Gill, Hall, Hammar, Heidemann, Hopkins, Howard, 

 I Innter. llvslop, |enne, Knab, Kraus, Marlatt, Morgan, I "al- 



ien, K. F. Phillips, W. J. Phillips, Pierce, Piper, Popenoe, 

 (Juaintance. Sanders, Schwarx, t'lke. \Vebb, and Webster, 

 members. and Messrs. llraucher, J. Doll, A. K. Fisher, Kelly. 

 Lowe, II. I'. Mann. Xelson, Strauss, T. \V. Yaughan, Vickery, 

 Viereck, \Yall. and \\'ood, visitors. 



The minutes of the 227th meeting were read and approved. 



Messrs. E. O. G. Kelly, F. 15. Lowe, and R. A. Vickery were 

 elecled corresponding members of the Society. 



The name of Mr. R. \Y. Braucher was proposed for corre- 

 ^jionding membership and referred to the Executive Committee. 



l/pon motion of Doctor Howard a resolution was passed 

 for the sending to the American Entomological Society of 

 congratulations on their celebration of the fiftieth anniversary 

 of the founding of their society. 



The February meeting being the anniversary meeting of the 

 twenty-fifth year since the founding of the Society, the evening 

 was devoted to reminiscences of the earlier years of the Society, 

 the hrsl being a paper by Doctor Howard entitled "The Ento- 

 mological Society of \Yashinglon." The second paper* of the 

 evening, by Mr. Schwarz, "Reminiscences of the Presidents of 

 ihe Society," was followed by discussion of both papers with 

 oilier reminiscences, in which Messrs. Mann, Gill, Ulke, Casey, 

 and Patten participated. 



*Xot published. 



