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or three volumes each year. Although the Ray Society has been 

 publishing volumes for seventy years, yet so far as can be judged from 

 its financial reports, which were issued annually in one of its volumes, it 

 has never had an endowment fund, but has depended entirely upon 

 annual subscriptions to meet the expense of publication. Whether the 

 number of entomologists, schools, libraries, experiment stations and 

 universities, that would be willing to subscribe for such volumes as 

 might be issued b}^ the Thomas Say Foundation would be large enough 

 to meet the expenses of publication has not been determined by the 

 temporary committee. 



There has been expended of the fifty dollars set aside by the Execu- 

 tive Committee at the Philadelphia meeting for the use of the temporary 

 committee of the Thomas Say Foundation, the sum of nine dollars and 

 twelve cents for the printing of letter heads, the letter above described, 

 and envelopes. The permission to include this letter with the call for 

 the San Francisco meeting did not increase the amount of postage per 

 letter for the Entomological Society of America, so that there has been 

 no expense to the Society other than the printing named above. 



Respectfully submitted for the temporary committee, 



Alex. D. MacGillivray. 



The Executive Committee named the following temporary com- 

 mittee to look after the Thomas Say Foundation for the year 1916: 

 J. M. Aldrich, Nathan Banks, A. D. MacGillivray, E. B. WilHamson, 

 Morgan Hebard, Treasurer, and Philip P. Calvert, Editor. 



On motion the report of the Executive Committee was 

 adopted. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS. 



The undersigned, your committee on nominations, giving the 

 matter as careful consideration as time would permit, desire to present 

 the following names for your consideration: 



First Vice-President: E. P. Felt, New York State Entomologist, 

 Albany, N. Y. 



Second Vice-President: A. L. Melander, Washington Agricultural 

 College, Pullman, Washington. 



Secretary-Treasurer: J. M. Aldrich, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, 

 West Lafayette, Indiana. 



Additional Members of tJie Executive Committee: 



H. T. Fernald, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, 

 Massachusetts. 



W. E. Britton, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New 

 Haven, Connecticut. 



P. J. Parrott, New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, 

 New York. 



E. D. Ball, Dean Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan, 

 Utah. 



C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa, Canada. 



