268 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLO- 

 GICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of Tuesday, January i8, 1910. 



Held at the American Museum of Natural History. President C. W. 

 Leng in the chair with twenty-one members and five visitors present. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved. 



The Librarian, Mr. Schaeflfer, reported the receipt of the following 

 exchanges : 



Deutsche Entomol. Zeitschrift, 1909, No. 6. 



Zeitschrift f. wissenschaftliche Insekten Biologic, V, No. 12. 



Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pt. 4. 



Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, LH, Nos. 3, 4. 



The Curator, Dr. Lutz, exhibited a large map recently purchased by the 

 museum, from which a local map, 8 X 10 inches, had been drawn and placed 

 in the hands of the printer for reproduction. 



Dr. Lutz also announced that Mr. Johnson had promised to name the 

 Diptera belonging to the local collection. 



He reported that the insect collection of the museum, with the exception 

 of the Lepidoptera, had been moved into a room in the new wing, where 

 those interested might consult the collection. 



Dr. J. L. Zabriskie, of the Executive Committee, read the following re- 

 port : " Regarding the report of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, Ottawa, 

 Canada, that this society contribute towards defraying the expense of a per- 

 manent memorial, in the form of a drinking fountain, consisting of a granite 

 shaft with bronze medallion, inscription, etc., to be erected at the Experimental 

 Farm, Ottawa, to commemorate the good work in furthering natural history 

 performed by the late Dr. James Fletcher, which request was referred to your 

 executive committee with power, the said committee reports as follows : 



" At a meeting of the executive committee of the New York Entomological 

 Society, held January 4, 1910, directly after the regular meeting of the society, 

 it was unanimously resolved : 



" This committee hereby instructs our treasurer to forward to the Ottawa 

 Field Naturalists' Club twenty-five dollars from the funds of this society — 

 as a contribution towards defraying the expense of the proposed memorial, 

 and express to the Ottawa Field Naturalists Club the high esteem of the New 

 York Entomological Society for the character and work of the late Dr. 

 Fletcher. 



J. L. Zabriskie, 

 G. W. J. Angell, 

 G. P. Englehardt, 

 C. L. Pollard, 

 C. E. Sleight." 



