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mangrove swamps on east and west, and Allen's River on the north, and so 

 completely between them that domesticated turkeys must perforce stay home, 

 finding no shelter in the impenetrable, slimy mangrove swamps if they try 

 to wander. Some of the buildings at Everglade are raised 6 or 7 feet on 

 concrete piers, so that storm-driven seas may sweep tinder them instead of 

 carrying them away. 



Ten miles northeast from Everglade, on the way to Deep Lake, a very low 

 ridge is crossed which bears a different vegetation, including sufficient pine to 

 have caused the local name of Pine Island for it. At Deep Lake oaks and 

 red maples are found. Such elevations are usually accompanied by an expo- 

 sure of the underlying limestone rock with the characteristic holes. 



At Lake Okeechobee the shady side of a house boat on the shore of South 

 Bay afforded extraordinary collecting of Carabidse. There a quantity of refuse 

 from the house boat had been thrown. A cornfield back of the hotel afforded 

 more collecting, including many Noctuidas. On the journey between Lake 

 Okeechobee and Fort Myers, a ridge like that noted at Pine Islatid could again 

 be observed, being central at LaBelle. 



Mr. Davis showed photographs of these places, one taken by Mr. Gross- 

 beck, showing Dr. McDonough enveloped in mosquito net, as a silent tribute 

 to the ferocity and number of such insects throughout the swamps. 



Mr. Pollard spoke of the Cuban species of pine found on some of the keys, 

 and Mr. Engelhardt commented on the forests of pine noted at intervals on 

 the east coast to the southern extremity of the peninsula. Mr. Davis remarked 

 that several species were peculiar to Florida, their distribution being given 

 by Sargent. 



Dr. Ltitz showed a photograph of pines at Cow Creek and read an extract 

 in relation to the supposed formation of Florida sandhills by wave action while 

 submerged. 



Mr. Dow read extracts from letters he had received from Dr. Walther 

 Horn (referring to the re-discovery of part of the Motschulsky collection), 

 Colonel Casey, Charles Dury and other entomologists. 



Meeting of April 15. 



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

 15, 1913, at 8.15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, President 

 Dr. Raymond C. Osburn in the chair and eleven members present. 



The cttrator exhibited the progress made in the local collection of galls 

 as arranged by Mr. Mtttchler, and called attention especially to the device, 

 consisting of companion boxes, by which it became possible to show together 

 the gall insects and the galls. The galls were loose as usual, each species in 

 a box, and the insects in an adjoining cork-lined smaller box, all proportioned 

 so that the drawer in which they were contained was filled. 



The president opened the Symposium on Insects on Plants (including 

 Fungi). 



Mr. Leng read a paper on " Coleoptera on Plants," in which he cited the 



