84 Journal New York Entomological Society, f^'oi- xxii. 



Librarian — John A. Grossbeck. 



Curator — Andrew J. Mutchler. 



Executive Committee — C. W. Leng, E. G. Love, Charles E. Sleight, Geo. 

 P. Engelhardt, Robert P. Dow. 



Publication Committee — Charles Schaeffer, Fi'ank E. Lutz, W. P. Corn- 

 stock, Lewis B. Woodruff. 



Auditing Committee — Christian F. Groth, G. W. J. Angell, C. H. Roberts. 



Field Committee — John D. Sherman, Ernest Shoemaker. 



Delegates to the Council of the New York Academy of Sciences — William 

 T. Davis. 



On motion by Mr. Angell, the nominations were declared closed, and the 

 secretary was instructed to cast an affirmative ballot. 



A vote of thanks to Dr. F. E. Lutz, the retiring curator, was moved by 

 Mr. Leng, and at the suggestion of the president, unanimously adopted by a 

 standing vote. 



Mr. S. Bevin, of 488 Myrtle Ave., Flushing, L. I., was proposed for active 

 membership by Mr. Davis. On motion the by-laws were suspended and Mr. 

 Bevin immediately elected. 



Dr. Osburn presented some general remarks as an annual presidential 

 address, in which he pointed out the social advantage of our meetings, but 

 dwelt particularly upon the different phases of entomology in which our 

 members are interested, and the consequent advantage to each member of 

 having different views of the subject brought to his notice. Speaking of the 

 history of the Society, Dr. Osburn said : " It was founded by a mixed class of 

 students and collectors of insects, though the interest was not so general in 

 the earlier years as it is at present. But that can partly be explained by the 

 fact that whole branches of zoological science have been added since this 

 Society was organized, and others were at that time in their beginning. Think 

 for a moment of the growth of economic entomology during these years, and 

 that the doctrine of evolution has become firmly established in the popular 

 mind ; consider that the transmission of diseases by insects has been proved 

 since this Society was organized, thereby opening up whole fields of ento- 

 mological research ; that the subject of genetics has been properly based during 

 the same time with some of the very best work in transmission segregation, 

 analysis and fixing of hereditary characteristics done upon insect material ; 

 that much of the hereditary basis of transmission of characters in the germ 

 cells has been worked out on this same group within the past dozen years, and 

 that the study of ecological relations has had almost its entire growth as a 

 science in the same time, and one can easily understand why the New York 

 Entomological Society of today differs from that of 1892 in its attitude toward 

 entomology and general science." 



Dr. Osburn closed his remarks by an expression of his appreciation of 

 the spirit of mutual helpfulness and generosity evident at our meetings, and 

 his hope that at the end of another year we may feel that we have advanced 

 personally in our subject and that our subject has been advanced to some 

 extent because of our labors. 



