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At that time the meeting was called to order by the First 

 Vice President, Dr. J. B. Smith. The report of the nominating 

 committee was read, and in accordance therewith, the Secretar}- 

 was instructed to cast a ballot for the following officers, which was 

 done : 



President, Dr. Henry Skinner. 



First Vice President, Prof. Herbert Osborn. 



Second Vice President, Dr. A. D. Hopkins. 



Secretary-Treasurer, J. Chester Bradley. 



Additional Members of the Executive Committee: 

 Prof. J. H. Comstock, Dr. John B. Smith, 



Dr. W. M. Wheeler, Rev. Prof. C. J. S. Bethune, 



]\lr. E. A. Schwarz, Prof. Lawrence Bi-uner. 



Member of Committee on Nomenclature to serve three years, 

 Dr. E. P. Felt, to succeed himself. 



There being no further business, papers were read as follows : 



IF. C. O'Kane. "Notes on a Lecanio-diaspid." 



A . N. Caudell spoke briefly' on a method that he had adopted 

 for preserving types. He uses Riker mounts for this purpose. 



W. A. Hooker. "Contributions to our knowledge of the host 

 relations of ticks." Discussion b^^ Messrs. Skinner, Cooley, Vier- 

 eck, Bruner and Miss Mitchell. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



At 3 p. M. a joint session with Section F of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science was held in the Eastern 

 High School. Dr. J. B. Smith presided over the meeting. The 

 following papers were read: 



Mr. F. M. Webster. ' ' Investigations of Toxoptera graminum 

 and its parasites." Discussion by Prof. Washburn and Mr. Hay- 

 hurst. 



A. Petrunkevitch. "On the muscular system of spiders' legs." 

 (Published in this number of The Annals.) 



J. H. Comstock. "A note on the habits of the wall-bee, Chal- 

 icodoma." (Published in full elsewhere in this volume of The 

 Annals.) 



/. A . Nelson. ' ' Evolution and adaptation in the palpi of male 

 spiders." (To be published in full in The Annals.) Discussion 

 by Drs. Hopkins and Petrunkevitch. 



Professor Williston now took the chair while the following 

 paper was read : 



