THOMAS SAY FOUNDATION. 



The Foundation announces the acceptance for pubhcation 

 of its first volume, ' 'The North American Species of Sarcophaga 

 and AlHed Genera," by J. M. Aldrich. The volume will be 

 printed in time for presentation at the New York meeting of the 

 Society in the holidays. It will make a volume of over three 

 hundred pages with 170 figures on sixteen plates. One hun- 

 dred and forty-five species are described, most of which are new, 

 the genitalia of 138 species are figured. Many new records of 

 larval habits are given. 



The Committee of the Foundation sent to each member of 

 the Entomological Society of America during the summer of 

 1915 a request for ten-dollar subscriptions, to which replies were 

 received from only seventeen members. The text of that letter 

 and the subscription form are printed on page 110 of the March 

 number of the present volume of the Annals. In order to 

 finance the publication of this volume, subscriptions are needed 

 from a much larger number of members. The Committee feels 

 that the limited number of replies was probably due to the fact 

 that there was no immediate prospect of any publishing being 

 done. The first volume is now in the printer's hands and the 

 present is an opportune time for the members of the Society to 

 come to the support of the Foundation w4th ten-dollar subscrip- 

 tions. The members of the Foundation are advancing several 

 hundred dollars in the publication of this volume. Will you not 

 aid us by sending subscriptions to Morgan Hebard, Treasurer. 

 Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Penn.? 



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