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This Committee is charged with making a report of their operations 
and expenditures to the Executive Committee of the Society at its 
next Annual Meeting. 
To put this plan into definite shape the Committee would suggest 
the following amendment to the Constitution of the Entomological 
Society of America, which shall be known as Article VIII of said 
Constitution: 
ARTICLE VIII. 
SECTION 1. NameE—This fund, the publication, and the com- 
mittee shall be known as ‘‘The Thomas Say Foundation.”’ 
SECTION 2. PurposE—The purpose of this Foundation is for the 
publication of works of a monographic or bibliographic character on 
the insects of North America. 
SECTION 3. PuBLicaTioN—Each publication shall be a volume 
complete in itself, and numbered consecutively. 
SEcTION 4. CoMMITTEE—This Committee shall consist of six mem- 
‘bers, four of them to be elected by the Executive Committee of the 
Society, two retiring annually, and an Editor and a Treasurer to be 
designated by the Executive Committee. 
SECTION 5. PowErs—This Committee is empowered to determine 
all matters concerning the publication. 
SECTION 6. Funps—They are also empowered to solicit, hold, 
invest, and expend funds committed to their care; only the interest 
from any endowment fund to be available. 
SECTION 7. RESPONSIBILITY—The Society shall be in no way 
responsible for debts contracted by this Foundation, unless previously 
authorized by the Executive Committee. 
SECTION 8. ReEports—The Editor and Treasurer shall present a 
report of their operations and expenditures to the Executive Com- 
mittee at each Annual Meeting, and the accounts of the Treasurer shall 
be audited by the Auditing Committee of the Society. These reports 
shall be published as a part of the proceedings of the Executive Com- 
mittee of each Annual Meeting. 
MorGan HEBARD, 
NATHAN BANKS. 
The report was adopted by the Executive Committee and the 
following persons were named as the temporary committee for the 
Thomas Say Foundation: J. M. Aldrich, Nathan Banks, Morgan 
Hebard, Alex. D. MacGillivray and E. P. Van Duzee. The Executive 
Committee empowered this temporary committee to select its own 
officers. 
[The four members of the temporary committee in attendance at the 
Convocation Week meetings held a meeting at the Academy of Natural 
Sciences and discussed ways and means of publication and elected 
Morgan Hebard as Treasurer and Alex. D. MacGillivray as Editor.] 
