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wide knowledge of the life history of insects a most interesting con- 

 tributor to the meetings. By his long illness and death, the Society 

 and entomology have suffered a great loss and one of our few sor- 

 rows on this occasion is that Joutel is not with us. 



During these first ten years the following of our present members 

 were elected, namely : Shoemaker, Love, Lagai, Davis, Barber, Wun- 

 der, Cammann, Weeks, Comstock and Watson, all of these before the 

 year 1900. Subsequent to 1900, Green, Leng, Graef, Southwick, 

 Sherman, Engelhardt and Harris. During this period also the So- 

 ciety became a member of the Scientific Alliance and in consequence 

 is now one of the Societies affiliated with the New York Academy of 

 Sciences, whereby the members receive the weekly Bulltin. The 

 social gatherings after the meeting adjourned became also an impor- 

 tant feature that though seldom referred to in the minutes is at least 

 once commemorated in the entry on April 17, 1900: "A very pleasant 

 time was spent yet after adjournment." 



The annual meeting of January 6, 1903, in developing two tickets 

 for election of officers reflected a political tinge in the Society's 

 affairs that was novel and for a time disconcerting. Proxies were 

 used and their use afterward disapproved. The Society lost the 

 support of a few members but gained in the more earnest support of 

 the remainder. The attendance increased and a remarkable good 

 feeling between the members was the result. The Society's affairs 

 have prospered ever since. When Professor Wheeler came to the 

 American Museum he became a regular attendant at the meetings, 

 always full of information on every subject that came up. Still later, 

 Dr. Lutz became a member and immediately took a most active in- 

 terest, instigating the Local Collection, the Environment Symposium 

 and speaking frequently of the broader aspects of entomology, and 

 since the war. Dr. Bequaert, with his intimate knowledge of the flies 

 and wasps of three continents, has added greatly to our strength. 



Without attempting to recite the dates when each member was 

 elected. May 21, 1907, may be mentioned as a memorable one, for 

 then R. P. Dow became a member of the Society with most pleasant 

 consequences in the field, at Lahaway Plantation and elsewhere, and 

 at the meetings, where we have heard him tell of the insects of Egypt 

 and other ancient countries and of the entomologists of olden times. 



The connection between the Society and the American Museum 



