OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XIII, 1911. 211 



MEETING OF OCTOBER 5, 1911. 



The 252d meeting was entertained by Mr. E. A. Schwarz 

 in the Saengerbund Hall, on October 5, 1911, Vice-President 

 Quaintance in the chair, and seventeen other members (Messrs. 

 Banks, Barber, Busck, Cushman, Dyar, Ely, Gahan, Gill, 

 Heidemann, Hopkins, Knab, Myers, Quaintance, Rohwer, 

 Sasscer, Schwarz, Viereck, and Walton), and as visitors 

 Messrs. Baker, Grovener, Sanford, Simonds, and W. H. Sill. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap- 

 proved. 



The Secretary-Treasurer made his report, which was freely 

 discussed. 



The report of the Publication Committee was heard. 



Mr. Gahan proposed the name of Mr. O. G. Babcock for 

 active membership. 



Professor Quaintance proposed Mr. A. C. Baker, of the 

 Bureau of Entomology, and Mr. Sasscer proposed Mr. H. L. 

 Sanford, also of the Bureau, for active membership. The 

 rules were suspended and all three were elected. 



As unfinished business Mr. Kohwer brought up the question 

 of the proposed amendment to the Constitution. After some 

 adverse discussion by Dr. Dyar and Mr. Banks, Mr. Schwarz 

 moved the adoption of the amendment as proposed. Mr. 

 Gahan seconded Mr. Schwarz's motion, but at the vote the 

 amendment was lost. Mr. Rohwer then moved that the mat- 

 ter be referred to the Committee on the Revision of the Con- 

 stitution. 



The Secretary-Treasurer read a letter from the editors of 

 the Washington Academy of Sciences urging the subscrip- 

 tion to the new journal of that organization. A long and 

 lively discussion ensued. 



The Secretary-Treasurer spoke of the courtesy of the Saen- 

 gerbund in letting the Society meet in its hall, and suggested 

 that a letter of thanks be sent. After the reading of the draft 

 he had prepared a motion to send the letter was carried. 



The first paper was by Mr. Banks, "A curious habit of one 

 of our phorid flies." 



