

JUN16 1914 

 PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF. WASHINGTON 

 VOL. XVI 1914 ~2 



Two HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SECOND MEETING, 

 DECEMBER 4, 1913. 



The following officers were elected for the year 1914: President, 

 W. D. Hunter; First Vice-President, A. N. Caudell; Second Vice- 

 President, E. R. Sasscer; Recording Secretary, W. B. Wood; 

 Secretary-Treasurer, S. A. Rohwer; Editor, W. D. Hunter; 

 additional members of Executive Committee, E. A. Schwarz, 

 L. 0. Howard, and August Busck. Prof. A. L. Quaintance was 

 nominated to represent the Society at the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Mr. Henry Try on, Government Entomologist of Queensland, 

 and Dr. T. Harvey Johnston, of the University of Melbourne, 

 addressed the Society. These gentlemen constitute a commission 

 which has been sent abroad by the government of Australia to 

 study the possibility of controlling the cacti of Australia. Among 

 other possibilities that are being considered is the introduction 

 of destructive cactus insects from the United States. The speaker-; 

 referred to their special interest in the investigation in this count i y 

 on account of the studies of cactus insects which have been con- 

 ducted. The importance of the cactus problem in Australia was 

 graphically described, and hope was expressed that the inve.-ti- 

 gation would reveal biological factors that might assist in control. 



Doctor Martini, of the Hamburg School of Tropical Medicine, 

 also addressed the Society with reference to his studies in the 

 United States, and his recent trip to the Canal Zone. 



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