28o PROCEEDINGS: ENTOMOlrOGICAIy SOCIETY 



Dr. Howard reported that Mr. Austin H. Clark had taken a specimen 

 of the West Indian moth, Thysania zenohia, in Washington on Septem- 

 ber 29, and that another specimen had been reported on September 22. 



325TH MEETING 



The 325th meeting of the Society was held in the Lecture Hall of the 

 Cosmos Club on November 6, 191 9. President Sasscer presided and 

 there were present thirty- three members and four visitors. New mem- 

 bers elected: LESTER L. Spessard and Henry Y. Gouldman of the 

 Federal Horticultural Board; Charles H. Richardson and Ernest 

 L. Chambers of the Bureau of Entomology; and Ryoichi Takahashi 

 of the Forest Experiment Station, Meguro, Tokio, Japan. 



The regular program was as follows : 



L. O. Howard: On entomologists. This paper was an historical 

 review of the development of entomology from the purely systematic 

 museum work to the intensely scientific biological and economic phases 

 of the science of the present day. Taking as a text "The systematic 

 entomologist must be an all-round entomologist; the economic ento- 

 mologist must be an all-round entomologist; and both systematic and 

 economic entomologists must be all-round men," Dr. Howard showed 

 the interdependence of all phases of the science, and the fact that the 

 economic entomologists are coming more and more to realize their 

 dependence upon the systematists. The change in the attitude of other 

 branches of science and of the layman toward the entomologist and the 

 factors that have caused the change were also brought out. 



Many of the members of the Society expressed their appreciation of 

 Dr. Howard's paper. Dr. Quaintance thought that economic ento- 

 mology has kept pace with other branches of science. When the experi- 

 ment stations were established there were no trained entomologists 

 and it was necessary to call on men in other professions who had a gen- 

 eral knowledge of biolog\\ In course of time textbooks were published, 

 courses were established in colleges, and entomological papers improved. 

 In more recent years entomologists have contributed some of the best 

 biological papers in any line. As for personal characteristics he thought 

 there was no more wholesome and sociable group of men. Mr. Schwarz 

 stated that some of the earliest American entomological publications, 

 even catalogues, contained items on the economic phase of the science. 



Dr. Hopkins commented on the contributions of entomologists to 

 biolog>' and paid a personal tribute to Dr. Howard in the following 

 words: "Dr. Howard has not referred to the entomologist who has done 

 more to command the recognition of the broad aspects of entomological 

 research as related to other sciences and to practice in agriculture and 

 medicine, and who has also done more to command respect for ento- 

 mology and entomologists by scientists and the public in general than 

 any other. Dr. Howard, through his liberal policy as Chief of the 

 Bureau of Entomology, and his helpful personal interest and counsel, 

 deserves far more credit for the achievements of other entomologists in 

 and out of the Bureau than has been recognized or perhaps ever will be. 



