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The Secretary further announced that the following sixteen 

 persons had been duly elected to Fellowship in the Entomological 

 Society of America. 



John ^lerton Aldrich, Andrew Delmar Hopkins, 



William Beutenmuller, Leland Ossian Howard, 



Philip Powell Calvert, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, 



Daniel William Coquillet, William Saunders, 

 Harrison Gray Dyar, Eugene Amandus Schwartz, 



Charles Henry Fernald, James George Needham, 



Stephen i\lfred Forbes, Henry H. Lyman, 



Samuel Henshaw, James H. Emerton. 



Prof. Osborn stated that it was the sense of the Executive 

 Committee by its Committee on Publication that no attempt 

 should be made at the publication of a journal that would occupy 

 the field of any existing serial, and that it does not appear feasible 

 to adopt any of the existing journals as the organ of the Society. 

 It seemed to be the sense of the Committee that a dignified publi- 

 cation might be undertaken in the nature of a series of Annals or 

 Memoirs, but that this should not be done until there was no 

 question as to the permanency of the form in which it be started. 



On invitation of the President, Dr. Horvath, Dr. Heymons 

 and Prof. Severin, and later on the invitation of Dr. Holland, Prof. 

 Kusnezov, responded each in turn with a brief address of greet- 

 ing to the Society. 



The Chair remarked that this was sacred entomologic ground, 

 hallowed by the work of Drs. Harris and Scudder. Dr. Scudder's 

 very old friend, Dr. J. G. Holland had been asked to bear him 

 the greetings of the Society, and they now awaited with interest 

 his response from Dr. Holland. 



"No more grateful task Mr. President," said Dr. Holland, 

 "could have been imposed upon me than to carry to Dr. Scudder 

 the salutations of the Entomologcial Society of America. This 

 afternoon I made my way to Cambridge, afraid that I might not 

 be permitted to see him, because of the tidings that reached me 

 of his greatly failing health, standing almost as he was within the 

 eternal shadows. What was my satisfaction to be met at the 

 door by his sister, who said he would be very glad indeed to see 

 me. There I found him perfectly helpless in body but perfectly 

 clear in mind. When I told him that I carried to him not only 

 my own greetings, but those of the delegates to the Zoological 



