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"The resignations of Messrs. G. W. Lucas, C. S. Brimley, W. F. 

 Works, T. W. Fyles, and Miss F. H. Goodfellow were accepted. 



"The following is a summary of the financial condition of the 

 Society: 



"Total receipts, including balance for 1907 $818.40 



"Expenditures, Society $77. 60 



Annals 632 . 33 



709.96 



"Cash on hand, Dec. 15, 1908 $108.44 



(Signed) J. Chester Bradley, For the Committee. 



The following report from the auditing committee was 

 accepted and the committee was discharged : 



"The Committee appointed to audit the accounts of the Secretary- 

 Treasurer and the Managing Editor of the Annals respectfully report 

 that they have examined the same, compared them with the accom- 

 panying vouchers and found the same to be correct." 



(Signed) Philip P. Calvert, 



Dec. 11, 1908. F. M. Webster. 



Mr. Viereck moved to ask the Committee on Nomenclature 

 to define what constitutes a species and variety, taking into con- 

 sideration what the ornithologists have done, and that they 

 bring the same up before the Commission on Nomenclature of 

 the International Congress of Zoology one year before the next 

 meeting of that Congress. 



Adjournment. 



At eight p. M. in the assembly room of McCoy Hall, the 

 annual public address was given before the Society by Dr. E. B. 

 Poulton, Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford, 

 on "Mimicry in the Butterflies of North America." The speaker 

 was introduced by Vice President Smith. A large a,nd apprecia- 

 tive audience was in attendance. The address was illustrated 

 by many beautiful colored slides. It will be printed elsewhere 

 in these Annals. 



J. Chester Bradley, Secretary-Treasurer. 



