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Following Professor Cockerell's paper, it was moved and 

 carried that a committee be appointed by the Executive Com- 

 mittee to promote the adequate development of the insect 

 collections of the National Museum. Vice-President Felt 

 stated that the committee would be announced at the evening 

 session. The reading of papers continued, as follows: 



Entomological Charts Z. P. Metcalf 



A Guide to a Laboratory Sttidy of the Scale Insects. . . .R. A. Cooley 



The Food of Drosophila J- P- Baumberger 



Observations on Grylloblatta campodeiformis C. Gordon Hewitt 



Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis Larvae as Parasites of the Human 



Intestine L. Haseman 



(On account of the absence of the authors, the last two were 

 read by the Vice-President and the Secretary.) 



At 5:10 P. M., the Society adjourned until evening. 



At 6 p. M., in company with the Association of Economic 

 Entomologists, in the rooms of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, the society was entertained by the New York 

 and Brooklyn Entomological Societies at a buffet supper; and 

 at 7:30 p. m. reassembled in one of the lecture rooms of the 

 Museum, where the Annual Address of the Entomological 

 Society of America was delivered by Professor T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, on the subject, "Fossil Insects." 



On calling the meeting to order, Vice-President Felt 

 announced that the Executive Committee had selected the 

 following committee to promote the adequate development of 

 the insect collections of the National Museum: 



T. D. A. Cockerell, Herbert Osborn, H. T. Fernald, 

 Wm. M. Wheeler, Jas. G. Needham. 



The program of the Annual Meeting having been completed, 

 the Society adjourned sine die. 



(Signed) J. M. Aldrich, 



Secretary- Treasurer. 



NOTICE. 



In accordance with instructions given me by the Executive 

 Committee at the Annual Meeting in New York City, on 

 December 27, 1916, I have dropped the name of James Sinclair 

 from the list of members of the Entomological Society of America. 



J. M. Aldrich, Secretary-Treasurer. 

 West Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 9, 1917. 



