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Mr. Doll reported the capture of hibernating Noctuidae : 

 Jo dia rufago and Copipanolis cubilis, both in early spring. 



Mr. Buchholz caught Catocala phalanga in Elizabeth, Sep- 

 tember 8. 



Mr. Lemmer found caterpillars of Catocala epione on butter 

 nut. 



Meeting of November 10, 1912, in the Library, Mr. Buch- 

 holz presiding and eleven members present. 



A letter was received from the Newark Museum Associa- 

 tion asking our society to help to make up a collection of New 

 Jersey insects. The secretary was ordered to inform them to 

 have 12 exhibition cases ready for our society to fill with in- 

 sects of our State. 



Meeting of December 8, 1912, in the Free Public Library, 

 Mr. Buchholz presiding and fourteen members present. 



The following officers for the year 1913 were elected: Presi- 

 dent, Otto Buchholz, re-elected ; Vice-President, Henry H. 

 Brehme ; Secretary, Frederick Lemmer, re-elected ; Financial 

 Secretary, T. David Mayfield, re-elected ; Treasurer, George J. 

 Keller, re-elected ; Librarian, Louis Doerf el ; Curator : Lepi- 

 doptera, Charles Rommel, Coleoptera and other orders, Ed. 

 Bischoff, re-elected ; trustee for three years, R. Schleckser ; 

 trustee for one year, John Angelman. 



Mr. Harry Weiss, of New Brunswick, was elected a mem- 

 ber. 



FREDERICK LEMMER, Secretary. 



Charles W. Hooker, Ph.D. 



CHARLES W. HOOKER, PH.D.. entomologist to the Federal 

 Experiment Station and plant inspector of the Port of Maya- 

 guez, Porto Rico, died on February 12, at the age of thirty, fol- 

 lowing an attack of appendicitis. Dr. Hooker, who was a grad- 

 uate of Amherst College in the Class of 1906, received his doc- 

 tor's degree in Entomology at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College in 1909. Science, March 7, 1913. 



