JOURNAL 



OF THE 



jOFiD ]Boph ^InJ^omologiral %mM^. 



Vol. XXVI. SEPTEMBER— DECEMBER, 1918. Nos. 3 and 4 



HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY, 1893-1918^ 



By Charles W. Leng, 



Staten Island, N. Y. 



The certificate of incorporation was presented to the Society on 

 June 7, 1893; it was signed by Neumogen, Ottolengni, Pahn, Beyer 

 and Angell, and provides for a term of existence of fifty years from 

 February i, 1893, the date on which it was executed. The Com- 

 mittee on Incorporation consisted of Pahn, Dietz, Groth and Dr. W. 

 C. Prime, a relative of Mrs. Slosson's. 



Preliminary to its incorporation, the embryo of the Society had 



1 Read at a special meeting held June 7, 191 8. to commemorate the 

 twenty-fifth anniversary of the incorporation of the Society. The meeting 

 was held in the Hotel Colonial and was preceded by a dinner in which many 

 visitors participated, including representatives of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences, the Philadelphia Academy of Science and the Brooklyn Entomolog- 

 ical Society. Letters of congratulation were read from E. A. Schwarz, the 

 Society's only honorary member, from The Entomological Society of Wash- 

 ington, the Entomological Society of Canada and from many of the Society's 

 corresponding members and former presidents. Interesting reminiscences of 

 the Society's early days were presented by letter or in person by Mrs. Annie 

 Trumbull Slosson, Charles Dury, Henry Bird, Dr. R. Ottolengui, Dr. Henry 

 Skinner, A. C. Weeks. Dr. E. E. Smith, President of the New York Academy 

 of Sciences, spoke of the importance of insects in relation to disease, and Mr. 

 R. P. Dow, editor of the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, of 

 the future of the Society, urging specialization in restricted fields of investi- 

 gation. These letters and speeches are filed in the minutes of the Society. 



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