1913] Proceedings of the Cleveland Meeting 139 



The Executive Committee apointed the Secretary-Treasurer and 

 Professor J. H. Comstock at the Washington meeting a committee to 

 deposit the fees of Hfe members in a bank that they should consider safe 

 at a good rate of interest. After considerable correspondence the 

 Citizens Savings and Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was selected 

 and the funds deposited there May 3, 1912, where they will draw four 

 per cent interest. 



The following amendment to the Constitution submitted at the 

 Boston meeting and voted upon at the Washington meeting was referred 

 back to the Executive Committee by the latter meeting for further 

 consideration : 



Article IV. Section 3. The President shall represent the Society upon the 

 Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science until such 

 time as the Society shall be qualified for representation by two councillors, in 

 which case the second councillor shall be elected from the fellows by the Execu- 

 tive Committee. 



To be amended to read: 



Section 3. Councillors to the American Association. The President and 

 the preceding Past-President shall represent the Society upon the Council of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of vScience. 



The Executive Committee would recommend the following 

 amendment : 



Section 5. Councillors to the American Association: The President and 

 the preceding Past-President shall represent the Society upon the council of the 

 American Association of the Advancement of Science. In case of the death or 

 resignation of either or both councillors, the vacancy shall be filled by the Execu- 

 tive Committee. 



The Executive Committee took the following action : It was moved 

 that the President and the preceding Past-President should represent 

 the Society upon the Council of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science during the year 1913. 



Mr. Edward P. VanDuzee, Librarian of the Grosvenor Public 

 Library, Buffalo, New York, who has made a special study of the 

 Hemiptera, was by a unanimous vote of the Executive Committee 

 elected a fellow of the society. 



The following amendments and additions to the constitu- 

 tion are recommended: 



Article V. Section 3. Election of Officers — All officers shall be elected by 

 ballot at the annual meeting for the term of one year and shall be eligible for 

 re-election. Their term of office shall commence with the first of June following 

 their election. 



To be amended to read as follows : 



Article V. Section 3. Election of Officers — All officers shall be elected by 

 ballot at the annual meeting for the term of one year and shall be eligible for 

 re-election. 



The following additional article to the Constitution, dealing with 

 the publication and management of the Annals, to be ntimber VII and 

 the present article of that number, to be numbered VIII : 



