1913] Proceedings of the Cleveland Meeting 145 



On motion, the secretary was instructed to cast a single 

 ballot for the officers named. They were declared elected. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 



Resolved, That we express to the authorities of the Western Reserve 

 University and of the Normal School our deep appreciation of the 

 courtesies extended this society; 



Resolved, That the thanks of this Society be extended to Mr. E. H. 

 Edwards for his generous assistance in arranging rooms for our use at 

 the Normal School as well as his personal help toward the success 

 of this meeting; 



Resolved, That we commend the Editorial Management of the Annals 

 of this Societ}'' and hereby recognize the value of Professor Osbom's 

 painstaking work in furthering the interests of this publication. 



Signed S. J. Hunter, 



W. A. Riley, 

 L. B. Walton. 



On motion the report was adopted. 



Upon the recommendation of the Committee on Resolu- 

 tions of and by action of the Society at the Washington meeting, 

 the following committee on types was appointed. Their 

 report follows: 



report of the committee on entomolotgcal types. 



Your Committee, appointed to report on Entomological Types, 

 submits the following: 



Location of Types. According to reports kindly fiunished by the 

 Directors or Curators, some of the larger museums of this country 

 contain types as follows : 



U. S. National Museum. About 16,000. 



Museum of Comparative Zoology. Over 10,000. 



Philadelphia Academy and American Entomological Society. 

 About 7,100. 



Dr. Skinner states that this includes only holotypes and lectotypes. 

 It is believed that the combined Philadelphia collections probably 

 contain 35,000 "t^'^pes", counting all the cotypical, paratypical and 

 typical specimens. 



Carnegie Museum, including Dr. Holland's collection (on deposit). 

 About 4,000. 



The number owned by the Boston Society of Natural History 

 (several hundreds, at least), American Museum of Natural History and 

 Musetmi of the Brooklyn Institute cannot be given at the present 

 moment, but will be ascertained later. A list of the types of insects, 

 other than Lepidoptera and Formicoidea, in the American Museum 

 has just been published (Biill. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XXXI, pp. 

 353-379). The Milwaukee PubHc Museimi has 71 types. Doubtless 

 the British Museum has more insect types than any other museum in 



