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advancement to the science, if brought to the particular atten- 
tion of the members of this society, and especially for those 
who are located in places where such studies have been neg- 
lected. In many cases such isolated individuals are deterred 
from undertaking the listing of their native species because of 
the idea that such work is not of primary importance, or from 
the difficulties encountered in finding the most satisfactory 
methods of preparation for various groups or securing the 
identification of such groups as may lie outside of their own 
especial field. These conditions may be greatly helped by the 
distinct stamp of approval of this society for such work and by 
some concerted effort to. arrange so that determinations may 
be secured for the collections in different orders. The direct 
method of encouragement, it appears to me, may be best taken 
up by the appointment of a standing committee on faunistics, 
the duty of which committee shall be to suggest means for the 
encouragement of such local work, the assisting of individuals 
in placing their collections where they may be identified, the 
gathering of scattered and isolated local lists into more com- 
prehensive ones, either for certain groups of insects or to 
cover certain geographical districts, or to develop the faunistic 
study of Entomology in such other ways as they may deem 
profitable. If this suggestion appeals to the society, I should 
be pleased to see such a committee organized at this meeting 
or at such time as may seem appropriate, and given such 
instruction as the society may see best. In general, it would 
seem desirable that such lists as have been mentioned should 
be published in the various jounrals to which they might be 
most appropriate, in the proceedings of state academies or other 
local societies and that the more extended faunistic papers 
resulting from the collection of these may be finally published 
in the Annals or in such journal as may give to them the widest 
distribution and permanence. 
Some most excellent work of this kind is in progress in 
certain states and I think we will all agree as to the useful 
purpose that has been served by such extensive state lists as 
that on New Jersey Insects and many of us have had occasion 
to admire and ‘make use of the extensive work in this line 
carried along by the State Entomologists of Illinois and of 
North Carolina. These are by no means the only cases of the 
kind but may serve to illustrate the utility of work in this field. 
