'I'lIK fAXADlAN ENTOMOLOCIST. 



The following amendment to the Constitution was adopted : 



Article V, Sec. 3. — Election of officers. All officers shall be elected by 

 ballot at the annual meeting for the term of one year, and shall be eligible 

 for re-election. Their term of office shall commence with the tirst of June 

 following their election. 



The Secretary was instructed to take a mail vote of all members and 

 I'ellows of the Society as to whether the present arrangement of paying 

 separate dues and subscriptions to the Annals should be continued, or a 

 single membership fee of two dollars be charged, and members receive 

 without further expense the publications of the Society. 



Professor Sanderson suggested the adoption of a uniform style of 

 button for both the entomological societies meeting in affiliation with the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Referred to the 

 officers. 



The following papers were read during the sessions : 



R. Matheson. — " Remarks on the External Anatomy of the 

 Haliplidfc." 



W. M. Wheeler. — "On the Effects of Parasitic and Other Kinds of 

 Castration in Insects." 



A. H. Morgan. — ''Some Correlations of May-lly Structure and 

 Habit." • , 



C. R. Crosby. — "Some Observations by the Late Professor Slinger- 

 land and the Speaker on the Life-history of Heterocordylus maliti2is.^' 

 (Read by title.) 



C. J. Triggerson. — "The Life-cycle of the Oak Hedge-hog Gall-fly 

 (Acraspis erinaces)." 



F. I,. Washburn. — "A jumping Seed-gall on the IJurr Oak."' 



A. D. MAcCiiLLiVRAV. — " The Female Reproductive Organs of 

 Cory (talis cormita, " 



W. L. W, Field. — "The Offspring of a Captured Female of 

 Bas ila rch ia p roserpin a.'" 



H. H. LY^rAN. — "An Lnproved Drawer for Liseci Cabinets and a 

 New Substance for Lining Them." 



C. T. Brues. — "Some Notes on the Geological History of the Para- 

 sitic Hymenoptera." 



J. C. Bradley. — "The J-'laiting of the Wings of Hymenoptera" 



T. J. Headlee. — "An Apparatus for the Determination of Optimums 

 of Temperature and Moisture for Insects." 



