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mal and detailed investigation to be made along the lines set 

 forth in the paper, and if deemed of sufficient importance, 

 that a Farmers' or other Bulletin, embodying the results be 

 prepared and distributed. 



Professor J. B. Smith noted that bats keep close to the 

 woods and take their prey entirely on the wing, hence were 

 not likely to be valuable as destroyers of the gypsy moth, the 

 brown tail and female moths generally, before the egg laying. 

 Air. Dow had observed while collecting under electric lights, 

 that a majority of moths caught by the bats were arctiids. 



Mr. Olsen then related a beautiful example of maternal 

 solicitude. He had encountered a party of boys stoning a 

 wood bat, Vespertilio novaeboracensis. The animal neither 

 flew nor resisted but held her wings folded around her body. 

 On rescuing her, he discovered a new born young one within 

 the sheltering wings. The helpless mother had stayed to face 

 death for its sake. Olsen made a nest of leaves in his hat. 

 ( )n arriving home, he found the mother and three young. 



G. P. ENGELHARDT, Secretary. 



At the Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the Feldman 

 Collecting Social, which was held at the home of the Secre- 

 tary, at Wissahickon, Philadelphia, Pa., December 28, 1907, 

 the following members were present: Dr. Henry Skinner, 

 Prof. Philip P. Calvert, Philip Laurent, Albert Hoyer, Henry 

 W. Wenzel, Dr. D. M. Castle, Frank Haimbach, Theo. H. 

 Schmitz, Henry S. Harbeck, Erich Daecke, Wm. S. Hunting- 

 ton, H. A. Wenzel, H. A. Kaeber, George M. Greene and 

 Henry L. Yiereck, also Mr. Chas. Greene, visitor. 



Letters were read from Chas. W. Johnson and C. Few 

 Seiss, members, and Wm. Beutenmuller, Edgar L. Dicker- 

 son, John A. Grossbeck and W. D. Kearfott, to whom invita- 

 tions had been extended, expressing regrets at not being able 

 to attend Anniversary meeting. 



Professor Calvert read a paper by Vernon E. Shelford, of 



