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has always been a close one and an advantageous one to the Society, 

 for it has light, heat, meeting place, storage for its own library and 

 the use of the Museum, all free of cost, so that all its funds are avail- 

 able for publication. The insect collections of the Museum and its 

 exploring expeditions become more or less Society affairs. Whereby 

 the history of our recent years includes some studies in the fauna of 

 distant regions, Dr. Bequaert and James Chapin have told us some- 

 thing of Africa. Dr. Lutz and Dr. Crampton of South America and 

 the West Indies; Messrs. Mutchler, Watson and Barber have also 

 spoken of the West Indies, while Dr. Lutz again has investigated the 

 fauna of Florida and Arizona. Mr. Davis also has become an ento- 

 mological explorer in Florida and I have been able to contrast the 

 conditions in Labrador and Cuba. Apart from Museum expeditions, 

 our members have individually wandered far from home, and thanks 

 to Schaeffer, Beyer, Hall, Engelhardt, Davis, Sherman, Barber, Hal- 

 linan, Notman, Osburn and Wright there are few parts of the United 

 States unmentioned in the minutes. We also derive benefit from 

 visitors to the Museum, as when Mr. Fred Muir drops in from 

 Hawaii, Dr. Azinoff from Central Asia or Dr. Van Dyke from 

 California. 



We have perhaps been more interested in pure entomology than 

 in its economic features, but the latter have been represented by 

 Messrs. Dickerson and Weiss and the too infrequent visits of Dr. 

 Felt. In the distribution of our discussions over the various orders 

 of insects rather than in the concentration on Lepidoptera and Co- 

 leoptera only, we have been particularly fortunate, especially of late 

 on account of the interest that Messrs. Barber and Olsen take in the 

 Hemiptera, Dr. Lutz and Dr. Bequeart in the Hymenoptera and Dip- 

 tera, Dr. Osburn and Mr, Woodruff in the Odonata, while Mr. Davis, 

 though specializing in cicadas, is apparently ready to furnish speci- 

 mens and information on each and every order. 



You must not imagine that such results have been attained with- 

 out work, much of it so unobtrusively done that it is scarcely well 

 enough known even to members. In this connection I would call 

 your attention to a few men who have given much attention to the 

 Society's affairs ; the late Louis H. Joutel has already been men- 

 tioned. Of those living, I think Mr. Charles Schaeft'er heads the 

 list with three years' service as secretary, ten as librarian and twenty- 



