18 PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



MEETING OF DECEMBER 7, 1911. 



The 254th regular meeting was entertained in the Saenger- 

 bund Hall, 314 C street N. W., by Dr. L. O. Howard. Presi- 

 dent Webster occupied the chair and twenty-six members 

 (Messrs. A. C. Baker, Banks, Barber, Busck, Caudell, Cory, 

 Cushman, Dyar, Ely, Heidemann, Hopkins, Howard, Hyslop, 

 Jenne, Fred Johnson, Knab, McAtee, Myers, Phillips, Roh- 

 wer, Sanford, Sasscer, Schwarz, Vickery, Viereck) and four 

 visitors (Messrs. Demuth, Grosvener, Urich, and Siegler) 

 were present. The minutes of the 253rd regular meeting 

 were read and approved. 



Mr. Rohwer read his report as Secretary-Treasurer. The 

 Chair appointed Messrs. Banks and Caudell as auditors. Dr. 

 Howard moved the report be accepted and placed on file and 

 that the recommendations contained in it be referred to the 

 executive committee. 



The Chair introduced the subject of the approaching meet- 

 ing of the A. A. A. S. with its attending corps of visit- 

 ing entomologists. Motion was made (Schwarz), seconded 

 (Knab), and carried that it is the sense of the Society that 

 we entertain the entomological contingent at a smoker, the 

 expenses to be paid by subscription. Mr. Schwarz stated that 

 at an Executive Committee meeting he had been appointed a 

 committee of one to investigate and find what arrangements 

 could be made. That the only available place and time ap- 

 pears to be the Saengerbund Hall, Friday night, December 

 29. Motion to accept the arrangements as made was carried. 

 Dr. Howard moved that Mr. Schwarz as chairman of the 

 committee of one for these arrangements be authorized to in- 

 crease its membership as desirable. Carried. 



Mr. Schwarz moved the election of Dr. K. Escherich, of 

 Tharandt, Germany. Carried. 



Under new business Mr. Rohwer read the proposed amend- 

 ments to the Constitution. Mr. Caudell moved their adop- 

 tion, seconded by Mr. Knab. Carried. Mr. Rohwer moved 

 that the Society publish the revised Constitution in the first 

 number of the forthcoming volume, Seconded by Mr. Cau- 

 dell. Carried. 



