1913] Proceedings of the Cleveland Meeting 137 



REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Your Secretary asks the privilege of departing from the custom of 

 former secretaries in reporting the various matters that have been 

 submitted to the Executive Committee in the interim between meetings. 

 The secretary feels that all these matters should be reported at the 

 annual meeting of the Executive Committee and put on record in the 

 proceedings of the Society. 



The following matters were considered during the year 1912: 



1. The revision of Bv-Law No. 9 as reported in the Annals, Vol. 

 V, p. S3. 



2. The appointment of Professor Herbert Osborn, the retiring 

 President, as the second councilor of the Society to the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



3. The following were named as delegates to the second Interna- 

 tional Congress of Entomologists, held at Oxford. England, August 

 5-10, 1912: 



Professor J. H. Comstock, Dr. Henrv Skinner, Dr, W. J. Holland, 

 Professor V. L. Kellogg, Dr. Philip P. Calvert, Dr. L. O. Howard, Dr. 

 W. M. Wheeler, Professor Herbert Osborn, Professor S. A. Forbes, 

 and Professor J. G. Needham. 



4. The apointment of a committee of three to draft resolutions 

 inviting the International Congress of Entomology to hold its next 

 meeting, 1915, in America. The following were named: Professor 

 S. A. Forbes, Chairman; Dr. Henry Skinner, and Professor J. H. Com- 

 stock. The success attending the efforts of this committee are reported 

 in another place. 



5. That there be printed at the head of the list of papers on the 

 program for each annual meeting the following statement: Each 

 paper will be limited to fifteen minutes, second titles will be placed at 

 the end of the program and read in the order listed. 



Upon an invitation from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, the President named the following as delegates to the celebra- 

 tion of the centenary anniversarv of the academv: Professor John B. 

 Smith, Dr. L. O. Howard, Dr. E^ P. Felt, Dr. W. E. Britton, and Dr. 

 W. M. Wheeler. 



The following twenty-seven new members were elected by the 

 Executive Committee, June 1, 1912: 



J. Lyonel King. H. R. Niswonger. James McDunnough. 



H. M. Parshly. C. L. Metcalf. Miss E. D. Faville. 



M. M. High. Prof. O. W. Oestlund. N. L. Partridge. 



E. H. Strickland. P. W. Mason. Col. T. L. Casey. 



A. C. Burrill. J. C. Faure. S. C. Bishop. 



J. H. Paine. Harold Morrison. D. L. Crawford. 



D. C. Mote. E. M. Schalck. E. C. Cotton. 



Prof. T. D. Jarvis. R. A. Grizzell. A. W. Baker. 



Lawson Caesar. Prof. R. W. Hegner. A. B. Johnson. 



The following have died during the year: 



Dr. John B. Smith. Prof. G. W. Taylor. 



Prof. T. H. Montgomery, Jr. E. L, Jenne. 



