TOL. II. BROOKLYN, FEBRUARY, 1887. 



NO. 11. 



Abstract of Address of Rev. Geo. D Hulst, retiring Presi- 

 dent, at Annual Meeting of the Brooklyn Ento. Soc. 



Members of the Brooklyn Entomological Society: 



There is no need that I should, as I close my term of ser- 

 vice as your President, give a summary of the work that has been done 

 in our Science during the last year. In the x\ddress of Prof Lintner be- 

 fore the Entomological Section of the A. A. A. S. , and published in our 

 own. Journal, you have a summary of Entomological work that I could 

 not hope to better. 



I will leave the beaten ground therefore, and speak upon matters 

 which afiect only our own local interests. And what I shall say shall be 

 in the line of congratulations and advice. 



I. I give you my congratulations. ist, I call your attention with 

 pride to our exceptional position among American Societies. Strictly 

 Entomological Societies are few in the United States, but among these 

 our Society stands second to none in the position it holds before the 

 World and which it holds by the best of reasons. It has, it is true no 

 inherited wealth, it has no mantle of past great ones: but it has an ear- 

 nest membership, who do conscientious collecting, and some of these 

 are giving faithful study to their various specialties in the Science, and 

 are taking, or have already taken their place among the best for the work 

 they do. This work has been, in the main, in the line of solid conserv- 

 ative Science. Following this line we stand as we do to-day. A few 

 years ago there were a few, who, arrogating to themselves parts of our 

 field of Science, asked "can any good come out of Brooklyn?" Our ef- 

 forts, which like all beginnings, were far from perfect, were sneered at 



