SPRING AND SUMMER NUMBERS ie 
BUGGIST costs between twenty-five and thirty-five dollars. It is 
planned, on the other hand, to enlarge each issue as funds be- 
come available. 
It is therefore urged that all members who have not already 
done so, be so kind as to send in their dues at once. In order 
to save postage and thereby to conserve the funds of the Society 
for use in publishing THE BUGGIST, personal notices for the an- 
nual dues will not be sent except when necessary. Please do not 
make this necessary in your case but send your dollar before 
you forget it. Receipts for dues will also generally not be 
mailed, but will be acknowledged in the next number of THE 
BUGGIST. 
New members will also be notified of their election in THE 
BuGGIST under Reports of Meetings. 
The Secretary-Treasurer also wishes to urge upon all members 
to miss no opportunity to obtain new members, and upon all 
others who read this notice and are interested in “bugs” to 
become members. 
The Executive Committee has designated the Curator of the 
University Museum as Custodian for publications received in 
exchange and otherwise. 
REPORTS OF MEETINGS 
(All meetings are held in Dr. Davis’ Lecture Room, Science Hall, Univer- 
sity of Florida, from 4:30 to 6:00 p. m., unless otherwise stated.) 
At the meeting of December 17, 1917, a communication from 
Mr. Roy Thompson, Secretary of the Lee County Entomological 
Society, was read. In this letter application was made for ac- 
cepting this Society as a branch of the Florida Entomological 
Society. As the constitution would need amendment to provide 
‘ for such affiliations, the Executive Committee was instructed to 
draw up the proper amendment. 
The following new members were elected: C. E. Whitting- 
ton, W. L. Benedict, J. L. Shelton, P. F. Robertson, R. G. Oli- 
phant, Roy Thompson, A. H. Andrews and F. 8. Balentine. 
The paper of the evening, “Entomology as a Pure Science’, 
was read by E. W. Berger. It was the aim of this paper to show 
that all modern scientific achievements had their beginnings 
in pure science, or the investigation of natural phenomena for 
