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existence. Only by trying it can we fairly tell the results. 

 If there were not a demand for such an organization, few 

 would enroll so promptly, but we already have over four 

 hundred members. In the opinion of the speaker there are a 

 few essential things which such a society should do; for 

 one, to keep amateurs in touch with a central body. Now, 

 this very object would be thwarted, were the society to con- 

 sist, as some have advocated, of delegates from local societies, 

 because by far the majority of entomologists are not in ter- 

 ritory covered by any local society and would be unrepre- 

 sented. In fact, the societies are so few and gathered into 

 such small territory as to be by no means representative. 

 Another great object of such a society is to build up and 

 foster local societies in unoccupied territory. Every one is 

 familiar with the growth of entomology in the present day. 

 Many of us know the struggles of the older entomologists, and 

 the discredit formerly cast upon their study. As an example of 

 the present-day ever-growing interest, the NEWS might be 

 mentioned (if reference to a personal subject may be par- 

 doned,) which every year has had to be printed in increasing 

 numbers, and already the edition for 1907 is exhausted. The 

 society was only a natural incident to this increasing growth 

 of entomology, and the speaker is a firm believer in its utility 

 and wishes it a long life and great prosperity. 



The Secretary then announced that the following persons 

 had been duly elected Honorary Fellows of the Entomological 

 Society of America : 



Ezra Townsend Cresson Henry Ulke 



Philip Reese Uhler Henry Christopher McCook 



William Henry Edwards William Harris Ashmead 

 Samuel Hubbard Scudder 



The Secretary further announced that the following sixteen 

 persons had been duly elected to fellowship in the Entomo- 

 logical Society of America : 



John Merton Aldrich 

 William Beutenmuller 

 Philip Powell Calvert 

 Daniel William Coquillet 



Harrison Gray Dyar 

 Charles Henry Fernald 

 Stephen Alfred Forbes 

 Samuel Henshaw 



