2 PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Dr. Hopkins stated that his address as retiring President was 

 as a Vice-President of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Hopkins stated that his address as retiring President was 

 not ready for the evening, but would be delivered in the near 

 future. He said that he had been busy completing a work in 

 which he had been engaged for years and he was glad to an- 

 nounce to the Society that the monograph of the scolytid genus 

 Dendroctonus would soon be published by the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology of the Department of Agriculture. It will be issued in 

 two parts, the systematic part as a technical bulletin and the 

 economic as a regular bulletin. He explained the main feat- 

 ures of the monograph and exhibited a number of plates 

 and maps. He said that it would be a foundation for all future 

 work on the Scolytidae and should also prove a great help to 

 other workers in the rhynchophorous Coleoptera. It shows 

 strikingly the great importance of careful systematic work as a 

 basis for good economic work. 



Mr. Ouaintance congratulated Doctor Hopkins upon the 

 thoroughness of the work and said that in this respect it should 

 serve as a model for other entomologists. 



Mr. Schwarz also made some complimentary remarks and 

 called attention to the fact that predaceous insects, being in- 

 dependent of host plants, are better indicators of life zones 

 than are the plant feeders. 



INFORMAL MEETING OF JANUARY 2, 1909. 



An informal meeting in honor of the visiting entomologists 

 present in the city after attending the entomological meetings 

 held in Baltimore during the sessions of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, was held at the Saenger- 

 bund Hall, 314 C street N.W., on the evening of January 2, 

 1909. 



Messrs. Ainslie, Barber, Burgess, Burke, Busck, Caudell, 

 demons, Couden, Crawford, Currie, Dyar, Hammar, Heide- 

 mann, Hinds, Hooker, Hopkins, Hunter, Jenne, Knab, Kraus, 

 Marlatt, Morgan, Morris, Pergande, Popenoe, Schwarz, 



