AmeriqAna 



¥0L, lY. 



BROOKLYN. NOVEMBER, 1888. 



NO. 8. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB 

 OF THE A, A. A. S. 



[Continued from page 134.J 



Thursday, i p. m. — Club met as per adjournment and the minutes 

 of previous meetings were read and approved. 



Mr. L. O. Howard and Dr. D. S. KelHcott were appointed a Com- 

 mittee to arrange programs for the meetings to be held during the week. 



In the discussion of the President's Address Prof Osborn mentioned 

 the Putnam collection in the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Davenport, Iowa, as containing the material in Coccidcg and SolpugidcB, 

 worked by Mr. J, Duncan Putnam, as also his collections in Utah. 

 Montana, Idaho, etc. 



Mr. Howard remarked upon the material used by Dr. Hagen for 

 bottoms of cases as being Italian Poplar, imported for the purpose. 



Mr. Fletcher spoke of the use of Basswood for the same purpose. 



Dr. Riley remarked upon the cases used in European collections. 



At the request of the President, Mr. James Fletcher made some re- 

 marks upon Canadian collections. Of those available for reference by 

 students he spoke particularly of the collection of the National Museum 

 of the Geological Survey at Ottawa. The nucleus of this was a large 

 collection, chiefly exotic diurnal Lepidoptera, purchased from Mr. 

 Gamble Geddes. To this however had been added many valuable col- 

 lections made by the members of the Survey staff, notably by Prof J. 

 IVIacoun and Messrs. G. M. Dawson, Tyrrell & Dowling, and J. M. 

 Macoun. It contained about 10,000 specimens and some types. He 

 also spoke of the collection of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 

 which he characterized as a good working general collection, containing 



