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The Committee on Resolutions reported as follows: 



The Committee on Resolutions has the honor to report as follows: 



(1) We desire to call attention to the faithful and efficient services of our 

 Executive Committee, to the courtesies extended to us by the University of 

 Toronto and the Royal Canadian Institute and to the excellent arrangements 

 made by the Local Committee of the Association and to express our sincere thanks 

 for their services. 



(2) Whereas, The Science of Entomology has suffered the loss of one of its 

 pioneer workers and this Society one of its most valued members and Honorary 

 Fellows in the recent death of Prof. C. H. Femald; therefore 



Be it Resolved, That we take this occasion to express our deep grief over his 

 loss; and be it further 



Resolved, That we extend our sympathies to his family. 



(Signed) E. Melville Du Porte, 



H. C. HUCKETT, 



W. P. Flint. 

 The Nominating Committee reported as follows: 



REPORT OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE. 



Your Committee on Nominations has to report as follows- 

 For President — Arthur Gibson. 

 For First Vice-President — W. A. Pilev. 

 For Second Vice-President — R. A. Cooley. 

 For Secretary-Treasurer — C. L. Metcalf. 



For Members of the Executive Committee — J. M. Aldrich, Wm. T. Davis, 

 E. M. Walker, O. A. Johannsen. 



(Signed) R. W. Harned, 



H. B. Hungerford, 

 R. L. Webster. 



On motion the report was accepted and the Secretary instructed to 

 cast the unanimous ballot of the Society for these officers; which, 

 being done, they were declared elected. 



The Secretary presented the following resolutions which were 

 adopted by a conference called by the Division of Biology and Agricul- 

 ture of the National Research Council held in the King Edward Hotel 

 on the afternoon of December 27th: 



Resolved. (1) That it is the sense of this conference that an inter-society 

 conference should be raised to study and report upon the feasibility of federation 

 of the biological societies and to develop plans for the said federation. 



Resolved, (2) That for the purpose of effecting such an organization, each 

 society, and Sections F. and G. of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, be requested to designate its President and Secretary as members of 

 an intersociety council which shall be authorized (a) to deal with all matters of 

 common interest such as the correlation of programs, studying problems of pub- 



