Vol. xxi I ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



Friday, Auyust 5. 



9 A. M. General Session. President, A. Lameere, Vice- 

 president, G. Horvath. Designation of a permanent interna- 

 tional committee. Election of a central bureau of nomencla- 

 ture. Choice of the place for holding the second Congress. 

 Election of a President. [Oxford, in the summer of 1912, not 

 1913, under Professor E. B. Poulton.] 



2 P. M. Section of Muscology and of the History of En- 

 tomology. President, W. J. Holland (Pittsburgh), Vice-presi- 

 dent, J. C. H. de Meyere (Amsterdam). W. J. Holland: On 

 the conservation of types in museums. J. M. Hewlett: Preser- 

 vation of collections in tropical climates. R. Garcia y Mercet : 

 History of Entomology in Spain. H. Skinner : One hundred 

 years of Entomology in the United States of America (an ac- 

 count of the few papers published on entomology prior to 1800 : 

 work of the pioneers; condition of affairs during the activity 

 of Thomas Say, the father of American Entomology). 



Section of Zoogeography. President, K. Holdhaus (Vienna), 

 Vice-president, E. Olivier. K. Holdhaus : On the dependence 

 of the fauna on the soil (influence of the soil constitution on 

 biocenetics and geographic distribution of insects). E. Olivier : 

 Geographic and physiologic distribution of the Lampyrid Cole- 

 optera. W. Horn: On the Wedda Bridge (Tertiary land con- 

 nection between Ceylon and the southeast of the Asiatic con- 

 tinent). S. Sainte Claire-Deville (Epinal) : Limits of the hy- 

 pogaeous and cavernicolous faunae in France. 



The secretaries for the Congress were F. Ball, J. Desneaux, 

 Baron M. de Selys-Longchamps, M. Philippson and H. Schout- 

 eden, all of Brussels, and F. Steinmetz, of Malines. 



At its session of August i the Congress named the following 

 Honorary members: C. Brunner von Wattemvyl (Vienna), C. 

 Emery (Bologna), J. H. Fabre (Serignan), L. von Heyden 

 (Frankfort), F. V. A. Meinert (Copenhagen), F. Plateau 

 (Ghent), O. M. Reuter (Abo), S. H. Scudder (Cambridge, 

 Mass.), P. C. T. Snellen (Rotterdam) and A. R. Wallace (Dor- 

 set). 



The printed alphabetical list of members present at the Con- 



