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President, Dr. Wm. Morton Wheeler. The report of the Committee on 

 Nomenclature was received. It will be printed in the "Annals" and 

 brought up for discussion next meeting. Appropriate minutes were 

 adopted in regard to the deaths of Drs. Ashmead and Fletcher, and the 

 deaths of Messrs. C. A. Davis, A. Craw and A. \ r . Taylor were also 

 announced by the Chair. The election of the following Fellows was 

 announced: E. P. Felt, S. W. Williston; A. D. MacGillivray, T. I). A. 

 Cockerell, E. I ). Ball, and also the election of 39 members. 



The following suggestion was considered and referred to the Com- 

 mittee on Nomenclature: 'That the Entomological Society of America 

 should undertake to get out a list of all names of insects, to be used as a 

 standard code, like the A < >. U. code." The following resolution was 

 adopted anil referred to the Executive Committee with power to act : 

 "That it is the sense of the Society that the duty on insects is objection- 

 able and should be abolished." 



An amendment to the constitution was proposed, to be voted on at 

 the next meeting, abolishing the present requirement that officers shall be 

 chosen only from the list of Fellows. An additional by-law was adopted, 

 as follows: 6. 'Any member may become a life member upon payment 

 of$5oatone time, and shall be exempt from further assessments. He 

 shall leceive during his life one copy of each issue of the Annals." 



The following officers were elected : President, Dr. Henry Skinner ; 

 First Vice-Pres., Prof. Herbert Osborn ; Second Vice-Pres., Dr. A. D. 

 Hopkins ; Sec -Treas , J.Chester Bradley. Additional members of the 

 Executive Committee: Prof. J. H. Comstock, Dr. John B.Smith, Dr. 

 W. M. Wheeler, Rev. Prof. C. J. S. Bethune, Mr. E. A. Schwarz and Prof. 

 Lawrence Bruner. Standing Committee on Nomenclature (for three years), 

 Dr. E. P. Felt, to succeed himself. Member of the Editorial Board, to fill 

 the vacancy caused by the death of I >r. Fletcher, Rev. Prof. C.J. S. Bethune. 



On Wednesday afternoon a joint session with Section F.,A: A. A. S. was 

 held, at which Dr. John B. Smith presided. At both this and the following 

 session on Thursday very full and interesting lists of papers were read. 



The sessions closed with an exceedingly interesting address on Thurs- 

 day evening by Dr. E. B. Poulton, Hope Professor of Zoology in Oxford 

 University, England, on "Mimicry in the Butterflies of North America." 

 The address was illustrated by many beautiful lantern slides, and was 

 attended by a large and appreciative audience. It, and also the full 

 minutes of the sessions, will be published in the "Annals of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of America." — J. Chester Bradley, Sec-Treas., Ithaca, N.Y. 



