176 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



MEETINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB OF THE 

 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE. 



In accordance with previous announcement, the members of the 

 Entomological Club met on Tuesday, the 22nd of August, at 2 : 30 p. m., 

 in the rooms of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Dr. LeConte in 

 the chair. The following members were present : Dr. John L. LeConte, 

 Philadelphia, President ; S. H. Scudder, Cambridge, Mass., Vice-Pres't ; 

 C. V. Riley, St. Louis, Mo., Secretary; J. A. Lintner, Albany, N. Y.; Dr. 

 H. Hagen, Cambridge, Mass.; Dr. John G. Morris, Baltimore, Md.; B. 

 P. Mann, Cambridge, Mass.; W. Saunders, London, Ont; Rev. C. J. S. 

 Bethune, Port Hope, Ont; E. B. Reed, London, Ont.; A. R. Grote, M. 

 M. Maycock, Dr. L. F. Harvey, Henry S. Sprague, O. Reinecke, W. W. 

 Stewart, of Buffalo, and others. 



president's address. 



After calling the meeting to order, the President read the following 

 address :■ — 



In resuming the chair, which by your kind partiality I occupied at the 

 last meeting of the club, permit me, after thanking you for the honor you 

 have done me in thus calling me a second time to this position, to con- 

 gratulate you on the evidence of increased interest felt in the branch of 

 Zoology to which we give our attention. 



This increased interest is shown not only by the larger attendance at 

 the present meeting of Entomologists from distant residences, but by the 

 increase of correspondence between those who collect and study insects. 

 I have received during the year several applications from new corres- 

 pondents for advice and assistance in the study of Coleoptera ; and my 

 colleague, Dr. Horn, informs me that the same is the case with himself. 

 Unfortunately I have been obliged to reply to some of the applicants with 

 a temporary negative,  as my time has been almost wholly taken up with 

 efforts to complete my memoir on Rhynchophora, now in course of pub- 

 lication by the American Philosophical Society. This memoir would have 

 been finished some weeks ago, but the exceptional inclemency of the 

 summer heat rendered all work with lenses difficult and uncertain. I 

 think I may promise that the MSS. will be complete in a few weeks. 

 Meanwhile I am glad to say that the arrangement of my cabinet specimens 

 is so far perfected that Dr. Horn or I will be willing to name any sets of 



