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PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY, 1913. 



The Meetings at Cleveland. 



Some twenty-five scientific societies are said to have met in 

 Cleveland in the last days of December and first days of Jan- 

 uary in conjunction with the Sixty-fourth Meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science. To 

 six of these bodies, namely. Section I, Social and Economic 

 Science, of the Association itself, The American Society of 

 Zoologists, The American Association of Economic Entomol- 

 ogists, The Entomological Society of America, The American 

 Association of Official Horticultural Inspectors, and The Amer- 

 ican Society of Naturalists, papers of an entomological char- 

 acter were contributed, and as the meetings of the six were 

 held in buildings (of "Western Reserve University and the 

 Normal School) near together, it was very easy and conveni- 

 ent to pass from one to the other. It was, indeed, necessary 

 at times to choose between two attractive programs, but, even 

 with the loss that this implied, it is a matter for congratulation 

 that the allied interests represented by these associations were, 

 for the greater part of a week, assembled in the same place. 

 Such temporary unions may not always be possible, but it is 

 surely desirable that they should take place whenever facilities 

 equal to those at Cleveland can be had. The two professedly 

 entomological societies met in the Normal School Building, the 

 Economic Entomologists following the Entomological Society 



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