574 PROCEEDINGS OF THE acade:\iy OF [Dec, 



The Entomological Section. 



The regular monthly meetings have been held, except during the 

 months of July and August. Valuable communications by the 

 members have been permanently recorded in the Proceedings of the 

 Section and published in the Entomological Neivs. The average 

 attendance was twelve persons, not including visitors. Eight tin cases 

 containing two hundred Schmitt boxes have been purchased to accom- 

 modate the growth of the collection and any new arrangement found 

 necessary. Over 11,000 specimens have been added to the cabinet 

 during the year. The most noteworthy additions have been 2,083 

 insects of all orders from Paramaribo, Surinam; 3,424 Hymenoptera, 

 presented by Mr. Henry L. Viereck; 700 Orthoptera from Florida and 

 2,500 from the Southwestern United States, captured by Mr. J. A. G. 

 Rehn and ]\Ir. Morgan Hebard ; two specimens of the very rare butter- 

 fly, Argynnis astarte, from Mt. Athabasca, were presented by Mrs. 

 Charles Schaffer. 



The Conservator of the Section spent five weeks collecting for the 

 Academy in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and 

 Alberta, and brought home a large amount of material. Quite a 

 number of the species collected were new to our cabinets, and it is 

 not unlikely that new species will be found when time permits the 

 proper study of this collection. A large part of the additions came 

 unmounted, and a considerable portion of the Conservator's time was 

 occupied in preparing it for the cabinet. The usual and necessary 

 work for the care and preservation of the collections has been done, 

 and new and better methods of technic have made this work very much 

 more satisfactory. The Entomological News, the journal published 

 under the direction of the Section, has been continued and Volume 

 XVIII completed with 458 pages and 17 plates. Two hundred and 

 ninety-eight pages and 4 plates of the Transactions of the American 

 Entomological Society have been published. The Conservator wishes 

 to acknowledge valuable assistance in the care and arrangement of 

 special collections from Dr. Philip P. Calvert, Mr. J. A. G. Rehn and 

 Mr. E. T. Cresson, Jr. 



Director, 



Vice-Director, 



Treasurer, 



Conservator, 



Secretary, 



Philip Laurent. 

 H. W. Wenzel. 

 E. T. Cresson. 

 Henry Skinner, M.D. 

 J. H. Ridings. 



