Sipt.-Dec, I92I.1 Proceedings. ISl 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOG- 

 ICAL SOCIETY. 



MeRTIXG ok DlUKMHKK 21. 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held at 

 S;oo P.M., on December 21. 1920, in the .American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. \'ice-Presi(Knl .lolin D. Shenii.in. Jr., in the chair, witii 16 members 

 present. 



Mr. .Mbert ElTinyham Lawrence, 105 West 6rjlh St., was elected an active 

 member. 



Mr. Davis proposed for active membership: 



Mr. Herbert F. Schwarz, 383 Park .\ve. 

 Dr. Harry H. Knight, St. Paul. Minn. 



Mr. Watson proposed : 



Mr. Alexander B. Klots. 125 West 78th St. 



On motion, the by-laws were suspended and the three candidates were 

 elected. 



On motion by Mr. Schaeffer. the society's subscription to Catalogus 

 Coleopterorum Junk was withdrawn. 



Mr. Weiss exhibited the insecticide catalogue of Sherwin-Williams Co., 

 commenting on its serious scientific errors. 



Mr. Weiss also read a paper on " The Insects of the Spreading Dogbane," 

 illustrated by specimens in adult and immature stages, which will be published 

 elsewhere in full. Reference was made to a paper in Ohio Journal by Ray- 

 mond C. Osburn and some of the details were discussed at length by Dr. 

 Hequaert, Mr. Davis, and Mr. Burns, with the conclusion that the species of 

 Apocyniim involved would affect the conditions. 



Mr. Xotman having assumed the chair, Mr. Sherman exhibited and dis- 

 cussed "The Biographies of Thomas Say," including the Memoir by George 

 Ord, read before Am. Philos. Soc, Dec. 19. 1834; Biog. Sketch by Benj. X. 

 Coates, read before Ac. Natural Science. Phila., Dec. 16. 1834; Thomas Say 

 by F. M. Webster, in Vol. VI of Ent. News, 1895. 



With the copy of Ord's Memoir, from Dr. Le Conte's library, was a letter 

 of Mrs. Say protesting against Ord's literary criticism. Mr. Sherman showed 

 illustrations of Say's portrait, first and last home in Indiana, and of his monu- 

 ment, and described his expedition to Florida and the Northwest as well as his 

 devotion to science. 



Mr. Davis called attention to the long time Mrs. Say survived her hus- 

 band, her death occurring at Lexington. Mass.. Nov. 15. 1886. and to her 

 having lived on Staten Island, where she was elected the first honorary mem- 

 ber of its Natural Science Association. 



