SPRING AND SUMMER NUMBERS 61 
It was voted to sever the Society’s connection as a section 
of the Florida Academy of Sciences and continue as an inde- 
pendent organization. 
The principal speaker of the evening being absent, Mr. A. L. 
Swanson was requested to give a brief account of the inspection 
of the Florida Keys for the Plant Board. Mr. Swanson stated 
that he and his crew lived on a house-boat and that the inspec- 
tion was made between January 8 and April 19, 1918, extend- 
ing from Elliott’s Key, on the north, to Key West. Mr. Swan- 
son further stated that the growth on the Keys is mostly hard- 
wood, including the Gumbo-Limbo. Most of the land is cut-over 
and the largest trees measure 12 to 18 inches in diameter. The 
larger insects appeared to be absent, at least at this time. Cab- 
bage butterflies and the Orange Dog were seen, the latter in 
January at Key West, the insect fauna has many representa- 
tives from the West Indies. Many plantings of cotton, etc., 
were seen without a blemish, being absolutely free from insects 
and diseases, a condition he had never seen before. 
Under “Timely Notes” Mr. O’Byrne reported that birds ap- 
peared to get many of the cutworms in his garden; or did 
wasps get them? EK. W. Berger reported that the whitefly 
was becoming unusually severe in the citrus groves, due to the 
fact that the trees had not been defoliated by the last winter’s 
freezes. 
May 27. At this meeting Prof. W. L. Floyd, of the University, 
and Mr. Geo. B. Merrill were present as visitors. 
The following new members were unanimously elected: Mr. 
B. L. Boyden, Scientific Assistant, Bureau of Entomology, sta- 
tioned in Florida on the Sweet Potato Weevil work; Mr. J. E. 
Graf, Bureau of Entomology, in charge of Sweet Potato Weevil 
work in the Southern States; and Mr. Geo. B. Merrill, Deputy 
Port and Railway Inspector for the Plant Board. 
Under “Timely Notes” Mr. Stirling described an infestation 
of Cottony Cushion Scale, near Sarasota, as the worst he had 
ever seen. Groves that were infested last year now had but 
‘small amounts of scale, with indications that the Vedalia cleaned 
he Ue. Prof. Watson exhibited specimens of the Broad-nosed 
Grain Weevil, collected at Plant City by E. A. Back, of the 
Bureau of Entomology, in corn. He also referred to the occur- 
rence of this same weevil as severely infesting dasheens at 
