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He has not only offered unlimited opportunities for the exercise of 

 initiative and the pursuing of original lines of research leading in all 

 directions, and sometimes penetrating deeply into his own fields of 

 investigation, but has given personal advice and made suggestions that 

 have pointed the way to rapid progress in the achievement of results. 

 We are all (especially the older members of the Society) familiar with 

 the very large number of contributions in Insect Life, bulletins of the 

 Division and Bureau of Entomology, and his monumental work, sys- 

 tematic and economic, on parasitic Hymenoptera and mosquitoes, and 

 on other insects in their relation to the health of man, which stand as 

 striking examples of the service entomology has rendered to humanity 

 and to the general advancement of biological knowledge. I want to 

 take this opportunity to acknowledge and express my gratitude and 

 appreciation of the opportunities and facilities that have been offered 

 to take up and pursue the lines of work that have been of greatest 

 interest and pleasure to me." 



Dr. Baker called attention to the change in the attitude of medical 

 men brought about by the war and to the function of entomologists in 

 the war in connection with camp sanitation. Mr. Rohwer told of an 

 entomologist of the old school who complained that taxonomy is not 

 what it formerly was. Mr. Rohwer agreed but stated that the taxono- 

 mist has progressed and broadened. Mr. Heinrich feared that the 

 greater recognition of economic entomology would prove disadvanta- 

 geous to taxonomy and that the taxonomist of the future will have to 

 be very self-sacrificing from a financial standpoint. Dr. Howard took 

 exception to this, stating that the economic men appreciate the need of 

 accurate taxonomic work. 



The second paper on the program was as follows : 



Carl Heinrich : A new genus of Oecophorid moths from Japan. 



Notes and Exhibition of Specimens 



Mr. Hyslop called attention to the recent death of Mrs. C. H. Fernald, 

 author of the "Catalogue of the Coccidae of the World." 



Mr. Heinrich exhibited photographs of the camp where Emerson 

 L. Diven, who had been engaged in aeroplane scouting in connection 

 with the work on the pink boll-worm of cotton, and his pilot were killed 

 in an aeroplane accident. 



Mr. Caudell told of stridulation by the severed legs of the common 

 house centipede and also of the stridulation of a cockroach. The legs 

 of the centipede move very rapidly for a time after being removed from 

 the body, the sound being caused by the rubbing of a spine on the basal 

 joint against the next joint. Dr. Hopkins and Mr. Schwarz spoke of the 

 stridulating organs of the scolytid beetles, some of which have these 

 organs on the sides of the body while others have them on the head. 

 In some species the males have these organs on the head and the females 

 have them at the anal end. 



