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Mr. Davis moved that in place of formal resolutions the secretary be 

 instructed to send a letter to Mrs. Grossbeck expressing the sorrow of all the 

 members of the Society and the affectionate remembrance in which our librarian 

 and friend would always be held. 



Leters from Dr. W. E. Britton, offering to donate copies of Bulletin i8i, 

 dealing with Connecticut Lady Beetles, and from the President of the Agassiz 

 Association, inviting the members to visit Arcadia, were read. 



A catalogue of Linnean specimens by the general secretary of the Linnean 

 Society of London was exhibited by Dr. Lutz. 



Mr. Davis, under the title " Notes on Spring Collecting in North Carolina,' 

 described the journey he made April 5 to Wilmington, Southport, Southern 

 Pines and Raleigh, N. C, in part with Mr. Barber, showing many of the insects 

 he caught and photographs of the regions he visited. A few of the plants, 

 including yellow jessamine, live oak, and American beech, were shown, and 

 judging by the latter especially, Mr. Davis thought the season at Wilmington 

 about five weeks ahead of New York. Dr. Britton later said that this coin- 

 cided with the usual estimate of spring advance on the Atlantic coast at the 

 rate of thirteen miles per day, since the distance between Wilmington and 

 New York, 450 miles, was almost exactly 35 X 13. 



Mr. Davis spoke of collecting on the beach and the circumscribed area in 

 which the wash-up was found productive, similar to, but even more pronounced 

 than the same condition observed on Long Island. He described the low, flat 

 lands about Wilmington, often overflowed or swampy, the extensive abandoned 

 rice fields, sometimes overgrown with golden club in April, the splendid forests, 

 in which three species of pine and enormous beeches were seen and the more 

 sandy areas in which Ciciiidela scitfellaris Carolina and other species were 

 caught. 



His pictures of Southport showed the cedars, the large live oaks growing 

 in the streets and especially in one fine picture, thick about the school house, 

 with the children romping beneath them. Mr. Davis spoke enthusiastically of 

 this town, but according to Mr. Barber's remarks later in the evening, even 

 his enthusiasm failed to do full justice to its many attractive features. 



At Southern Pines, Mr. Davis visited Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Manee, and 

 photographs of them and their home were included in his exhibit. The rat- 

 tling noise made by Brachys ovata within the oak leaves it mines, previously 

 noticed in Florida, was here described to Mr. Davis by Mr. Manee, who said 

 his attention had first been drawn to it by an old darky. 



At Raleigh, Professor Metcalf, Franklin Sherman, C. S. Brimley and 

 other friends were seen and some desirable grasshoppers were obtained. Sev- 

 eral large boxes of the insects captured on the trip were shown, including 5m- 

 prcstis decora, Tliecla damon, many other species of Lepidoptera, eight species 

 of dragon flies, Syrphids for Dr. Osburn, thirteen species of grasshoppers, of 

 which two proved new to the N. C. State List, and many insects of other 

 orders. The grasshoppers will later form the subject of a special article by 

 Mr. Davis. 



Dr. Lutz exhibited a large number of photographs obtained during his 

 recent visit to Porto Rico and many colored slides loaned by Professor Cramp- 



