VOL. VI. 



BROOKLYN, JANUARY, 1890. 



No. 1. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF JAMES FLETCHER, PRESI- 

 DENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB 

 OF THE A. A. A. S. 1889.* 



Gentlemen : — Another year has rolled by since we held our 

 last pleasant meeting in the city of Cleveland. It is with much 

 pleasure that I recognize here to-day the faces of several of those 

 who helped to make that meeting so successful, and, as gratitude 

 has been satirically described as "a keen appreciation of further 

 favors to come, ' ' I feel grateful to such of you for being present at 

 this meeting, the success of which, to a certain extent, your pres- 

 ence assures, but for which I, as presiding officer, shall be held 

 largely responsible. With the help of our Secretary I have endeav- 

 ored to arrange the papers to be read, so as to save as much time 

 as possible, and at the same time to make the most of the papers. 

 It is a time-honored custom that the President should give an ad- 

 dress at the opening of the Annual Session, I therefore bow to the 

 decree of fate, and shall endeavor for a short time to lay before you 

 some subjects which it has occurred to me are worthy of consid- 

 eration by the members of the Club. Inaugural addresses generally 

 take the form either of a prospective or retrospective view of the 

 matters with which the Society, before which they are delivered, 

 particularly concerns itself, or on the other hand, they are devoted 

 to the elaboration of some one special subject. I purpose following 

 the former of these courses to-day, and shall briefly remind you of 



* See Ento. Amer. v, p. 201. 



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