238 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, '09 



tomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia : Harvey, Greene, Rehn, Daecke, Boerner, Tig, 

 Coxey, Haimbach, Viereck, Matthews and Cole. Visitors : 

 Dr. Stevens of Plymouth, Mass., Charles Morris, G. Warder 

 Cresson, H. A. Wenzel, C. T. Greene, Theo. H. Schmitz and 

 William Beutenmiiller of the American Museum of Natural 

 History New York. 



The minutes of the first and last meeting were read. Mr- 

 E. T. Cresson read a very interesting history of the Society, 

 and then moved that a committee be appointed to bring the 

 history up to date. The motion was carried, and the president 

 appointed Messrs. Henr)^ C. McCook, B. H. Smith and Henry 

 Skinner. A portrait of Mr. E. T. Cresson was presented and 

 hung in the Entomological Rooms. The vice-president, Mr. 

 Wenzel, being called to the chair, the president, Dr. Calvert, 

 offered the following resolution, which was seconded and unani- 

 mously carried : 



The American Entomological Society, assembled in meeting 

 February 15, 1909, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of 

 the day on which were sent out invitations looking to the for- 

 mation of this Society, hereby records its sense of gratitude for 

 that measure of age, position and success which it has attained. 

 It recognizes that this attainment has been due to the unselfish 

 labors of many members, both past and present, among them 

 Bland, Blake, Feldman, LeConte, McAllister, Meichel, New- 

 man, Ridings, Wilson, Wilt, Horn, McCook, Angus, Bassett, 

 Grote, Skinner, Eckfelt, Knight, Pine. 



It especially rejoices in the presence to-night of one of the 

 three founders of the Society, Mr. E. T. Cresson, who from 

 the very first has continuously exerted himself in its interests, 

 serving as treasurer for thirty-five years, as editor of the Pro- 

 ceedings, later Transactions, for thirty-eight years, and who, 

 the early days of the Society's existence, cared for its collec- 

 tions and library and with his own hands set type for its pub- 

 lications, besides composing a long series of entomological 

 memoirs, principally upon the Hymenoptera, which have givt-n 

 to him and to the Society an honorable distinction, both at home 

 and abroad. To many a younger student he has kindly given 



