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holtz had assisted in the search. Mr. Bird's remarks were, as he expressed it, 

 illustrated by the proceeds, a number of the moths, the inflated caterpillers, 

 the pupae and the rootstock of the fern showing the borings, as well as two of 

 the parasites. 



In reply to questions by Mr. Engelhardt, Mr. Bird said that only old 

 established roots were infested and that the larvae leave them to pupate. 



Dr. Lutz read a paper on " Humidity and Experimental Work " in which 

 he pointed out the preponderance of data on temperature at the expense of 

 other factors and the difficulty of isolating the consequences of temperature 

 and humidity ; leading to the possibility that many results ascribed to tempera- 

 ture are really due to concurrent differences in humidity. 



Mr. Engelhardt showed photographs of a nest of Vespa crabro made by 

 Dr. Bigelow at Sound Beach, Conn., and found by three boys, also a photQ' 

 graph of the boy who removed the nest after the operation. 



Meeting of January 6. 



The annual meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held 

 January 6, 1914, at 8:15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 President Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair, with 13 members and two 

 visitors, Mr. J. H. Emerton and Mr. W. T. Bather, present. 



The secretary reported 16 meetings held during the year, with an average 

 attendance of nineteen members, the largest attendance having been twenty- 

 eight members, and the total number in attendance at one or more meetings 

 being fifty-one, of whom twenty-nine have attended all meetings more or less 

 regularly. 



Dr. Lutz, in resigning his office as curator, extended his thanks to all the 

 members for the assistance they had given him in developing the local 

 collection. 



Mr. Davis, as delegate to the council of the New York Academy of Sci- 

 ences, reported that Mr. Louis H. Joutel had repaid the grant of $150 made to 

 him some years ago from the Herrmann Fund to further his studies of white 

 ants, having been prevented by his long-continued illness from completing 

 them. At the request of the president, Mr. Davis added that the council had 

 received the repayment unwillingly, and stood ready to defray the expense of 

 stenographic or other assistance necessary to facilitate the recording of the 

 data accumulated by Mr. Joutel, should his health permit of his dictating the 

 results of the studies made previous to his illness. / 



Mr. Schaeffer spoke of the value of the information gathered by Mr. 

 Joutel and the desirability of recording it if possible. 



The nominating committee reported the following list of officers and com- 

 mittees for 1914 : 



President — Raymond C. Osburn. 



Vice-President — Harry G. Barber. 



Secretary — C. W. Leng. 



Treasurer — William T. Davis. 



