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VOL. XXII. LONDOX OCTOBER, 1890. No. 10. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB OF THE 

 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 



OF SCIENCE. 



The Club assembled in the State House at Indianapolis, Ind., on 

 Wednesday, August 20th, 1890. and began its regular sessions at 9 o'clock 

 a. m., the President, Prof. A. J. Cook, Agricultural College, Mich., in 

 the chair. 



There were present during the meetings : — W. B. Alwood, Blacksburg, 

 Va. ; Geo. F. Atkinson, Columbia, S. C; W. S. Blachley ; P. Carter; 

 Prof. E. W. Claypole and K. B, Claypole, Akron, Ohio; F. S. Earle, 

 Ocean Springs, Mich.; S. G. Evans, Evansville, Ind.; James Fletcher, 

 Ottawa, Ont. ; H. Garman, Lexington, Ky. ; Mrs. O. Hanney ; C. W. 

 Hargitt, Oxford, Ohio; Thos. Hunt; John Marten, Albion, 111.; Miss 

 Mary E. Murtfeldt and Miss Augusta Murtfeldt, St. Louis, Mo.; W. W. 

 Norman ; Prof. Herbert Osborn and L. H. Pammel, Ames, Iowa ; R. S. 

 F. Perry ; C. Robertson, Carlingville, Ind. ; Prof J. W. Spencer, Athens, 

 Ga. ; James Troop and Prof F. M. Webster, Lafayette, Ind. ; Dr. 

 Clarence M. Weed, Columbus, Ohio, and others. 



The President, Prof. A. J. Cook, delivered the following address : — 



ON TEACHING ENTOMOLOGY. 



Ladies and Gentlemen of the Entomological Club, — I con- 

 gratulate you that another year has passed, and our number has not been 

 broken in upon by death. While our ranks have been much enlarged, 

 no one has been called to that undiscovered country from whose bourne 

 no traveller returns. I also congratulate you upon the great increment in 

 our force of working entomologists. I think I may say, with no fear of 

 contradiction, that no year in the history of America has been so remarkable 

 in this respect as has the last. This is a cause for special felicitation, not 

 only to entomologists, but to all our people. Ours is a tremendous 

 country — by ours I include, of course, our Canadian brothers, for we, as 

 scientists, know no line of separation — and to spy out the entire land 

 needs an army of workers or observers, all trained to keen sight and 



