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general and humorous manner and then gave an interesting 

 talk on imported species of several orders, particularly as to 

 their wide distribution. One species, a fly, was bred by Mr. 

 Johnson, from the University grounds here and later turned 

 up in Arizona. He stated that many varieties of insects were 

 imported to this country by the Spaniards, years ago, and also 

 that the distribution of the different species was largely aided 

 by the Jesuit priests in their travels through different coun- 

 tries when they carried with them grains and fruits gathered 

 at points where they stopped. 



Mr. Wenzel exhibited a live, wingless female grasshopper, 

 Aptenopedcs sphcnarioides Scudder, collected by Mr. Schmitz 

 in the street at noon of the date of the meeting, the tempera- 

 ture at that time being about 25 deg. Fahrenheit. 



After an elaborate musical program furnished by Mr. Haim- 

 bach's family and friends, the members were invited to the 

 dining room, where they were again well entertained. 



GEO. M. GREENE, Secretary. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTO- 

 MOLOGISTS. 



The twenty-third annual meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion of Economic Entomologists was held at Minneapolis, De- 

 cember 28 and 29, 1910. The full proceedings are published 

 in the Journal of Economic Entomology (the official organ of 

 the Association) for February, 1911. Some of the more interest- 

 ing features of the proceedings were : The consideration of a 

 committee report on a proposed affiliation of the Association 

 with ten other non-entomological societies under the name of 

 the Affiliated Societies of Agricultural Science, a general 

 meeting to be held biennially ; each affiliated society to retain 

 its own organization and to hold such other meetings as it 

 may elect and to issue its own Proceedings, but the Proceed- 

 ings of all to conform to a uniform style of page, paper and 

 type. The report of the committee was received and the com- 



