CHARTER 



OP THE 



iT 



entomoloCtIcal society 



OF 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Whereas, it is represented to the Legislature that a number of persons 

 have formed a Society in Phihidelphia, by the name of " The Entomolog- 

 ical Society of Philadelphia," for the improvement and advancement of 

 Entomological Science and the investigation of the character and habits of 

 insects, many of which in their ravages are destructive of the products of 

 agriculture, and in order that the purposes thereof may be carried into 

 better effect, 



Therefore, 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 

 of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it 

 is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Jamas Ridings, 

 Thomas B. Wilson. William S. Wood, Charles Wilt, Thomas Cox, Thom- 

 as B. Ashton, John Pearsall, Louis Schneider, James W. M'Allister, 

 William Wolter, James H. B. Bland, Robert Jack, Charles J. Wood, 

 Greorge Newman, Ezra T. Cresson, John Meichel, Henry Feldman, Wil- 

 liam Evett, Samuel H. Shinn, George Hill, William Wenzel. William 

 Kay, J. Frank Knight, Henry Hike, Joseph Dunkerley, Hugh Dunbar, 

 William S. Pine, Louis C. Gropengeisser, John Knight, F. Englehardt, 

 Theodore Bunte, James H. M'Farlaud, William S. Ballantine, George H. 

 Horn, Horace B. Mitchell, James H. Smith, Charles A. Blake, James D. 

 Dowling, Robert Nuttel, Samuel Lewis, Jacob J]nnis, William Lumbry, 

 Thomas Daly, Jr., William A. Royal, J. D. Wingate, Daniel Wiest, George 

 Hewston, Charles F. Parker, Robert Frazer, John M'Meichel, George W. 

 Gallierd, Edgar Cowan, Joseph Moore, Jonathan Roberts Tjowrey. Joseph 

 Rex, William F. Smith, Peter C. Shannon, G. W. Wimley, and such other 

 persons as now are or hereafter may become Members of said Society, 

 agreeably to its rules and regulations, shall be and they are hereby consti- 

 tuted and created a body corporate, by the name and title of • The Ento- 



