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The report of the nominating committee was presented and accepted, and 

 the Club voted to instruct the Secretary to cast one ballot for the entire ticket. 

 The officers thus chosen for the ensuing year are : President, J. H. Emerton ; 

 Secretary, W. L. W. Field ; Treasurer, Roland Hayward ; Members at large of 

 Executive Committee, P. G. Bolster, H. H. Newcomb. 



The announcement was made that hereafter until further action of the Club 

 in the matter of the annual assessment of active members, each active member 

 not in arrears should be entitled to receive Psyche regularly, and be reckoned 

 a paid-up subscriber to that journal. 



Mr. W. L. VV. Field then exhibited specimens of Basilarchia proserpina, 

 B. arthechippHS, and other puzzling forms in the same genus, and called attention 

 to the need of further study of these butterflies. Mr. H. H. Newcomb followed 

 with a very interesting talk on B. proserpina, in the course of which he shov/ed 

 some unusual specimens. 



It was agreed that a special meeting should be held on the evening of 

 February 2. Adjournment was reached at 9.35. 



A special meeting of the Club was held in the Council room on the evening 

 of February 2, 1904. Ten members were present. The President being late, 

 Mr. Morse was elected temporary Chairman. The record of the last meeting 

 was read and accepted. 



Mr. Newcomb showed some Mt. Washington material received from Mrs. 

 Slosson, and also a series of specimens which he had prepared for the New 

 England collection of the Boston Society- of Natural History. Mr. Field showed 

 a series of Basilarchia arthemis from Alstead, N. H., and a specimen of the 

 same species from Milton, Mass. Mr. Morse showed a fine series of arthemis 

 and proserpina, arranged in a case of the kind invented by himself, and described 

 in the Journal of the N. Y. Entomological Society, vol. IV., p. 20. Mr. Newcomb 

 read a letter from Dr. Seifert, setting forth the writer's views on the relationship of 

 Basilarchia proserpina to astyanax and arthemis. 



The books formerly belonging to the Harris Club were sold at auction by 

 Mr. Newcomb. 



The meeting was then adjourned. 



The 234th regular meeting was held in the Council Room of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History on the evening of February 16, 1904. Eight members 

 present. In the absence of the President Mr. Johnson was appointed Chairman. 



