l88 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll 



The result of the mail vote ordered by the Society at the 

 Boston meeting was, that the annual dues of the Society 

 should be two dollars, this to include a subscription to the 

 Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 



The following officers were elected : President, Professor 

 Herbert Osborn; First Vice-President, Professor Lawrence 

 Bruner; Second Vice-President, Professor Alex. D. Mac- 

 Gillivray ; Secretary-Treasurer, Professor Alex. D. Mac- 

 Gillivray. 



Additional members of the Executive Committee: Profes- 

 sor J. H. Comstock, Professor J. B. Smith, Professor C. J. S. 

 Bethune, Dr. W. M. Wheeler, Dr. H. Skinner, Dr. A. D. 

 Hopkins. 



The Annual Public Address was given in Handicraft Hall 

 by Professor F. L. Washburn : "The Typhoid Fly in the 

 Minnesota Iron Range." ALEX. D. MACGILLIVRAY, Secretary- 

 Treasurer. 



FELDMAN COLLECTING SOCIAL. 



Meeting of Dec. 2ist, 1910, held at 1523 S. I3th St., Phila- 

 delphia. Twelve members present; Mr. Lewis H. Traun- 

 weiser, visitor. President Harbeck in the chair. 



Prof. Smith commented on the different departments of the 

 colleges he visited in Europe and said he was surprised at the 

 amount of entomology taught in connection with the medical 

 courses, which of course is mostly on insects which are car- 

 riers of disease. He gave details of his trip, which was for 

 the purpose of looking up the water plant Azolla to be used 

 in exterminating mosquitoes, and which was described in the 

 NEWS for December. 



A copy of the new New Jersey list of insects was shown. 



Mr. C. T. Greene exhibited and recorded the following 

 Diptera, all collected by himself: Masiccra albifrons Town., 

 Castle Rock, Pa., VIII-29-'o9; Chactona nitcns Coq., Weno- 

 nah, N. J-< IX-5~'io; Tachytrechus mocchus Loew, Bromall, 

 Pa., VII-i-'io; and Gymnoplernus clialcochrus Loew, Weno- 

 nah, N. J., V-is-'io. 



Dr. Castle said that on his trips to Florida he had taken 



