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In the absence of the President and First Vice President, the 

 Second Vice President, Dr. Henry Skinner, presided. He opened 

 the meeting with words of welcome to the foreign and other guests 

 who were present, many as delegates to the Seventh International 

 Congress of Zoology. Like all new movements this Society had 

 opposition in the inception and there were those who did not see 

 grounds for utility in its existence. Only by trying it can we 

 fairly tell the results. If there were not a demand for such an 

 organization, persons would not be so quick to join, for we already 

 have over 400 members. In the opinion of the speaker, there are 

 a few essential things which such a society should do; for one, 

 to keep amateurs in touch with a central body. Now this very 

 object would be thwarted were the Society to consist, as some 

 have advocated, of delegates from local Societies, because by far 

 the majority of entomologists are not in territory covered by any 

 local society and would be unrepresented. In fact the societies 

 are so few and gathered into such small territory as to be by no 

 means representative. Another great object of such a society 

 is to build up and foster local societies in unoccupied territory. 

 Everyone is familiar with the growth of entomology in the present 

 day. Many of us know the struggles of the older entomologists, 

 and the discredit formerly cast upon their study. As an example 

 of the present day ever-growing interest, the "'News" might be 

 mentioned, to refer to a personal subject, which every year has 

 had to be printed in increasing numbers, and already the edition 

 for 1907 is exhausted. The Society was only a natural incident 

 to this increasing growth of entomology, and the speaker is a 

 firm believer in its utility and wishes it a long life and great 

 prosperity. 



The Secretary then announced that the following persons had 

 been duly elected Honorary Fellows of the Entomological Society 

 of America : 



Ezra Townsend Cresson, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, 

 Philip Reese Uhler, Henry Ulke, 



William Henry Edwards, Henry Christopher McCook, 

 William Harris Ashmead. 



