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FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
Official Organ of The Florida Entomological Society, Gainesville, 
Florida. 
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THE BOSTON MEETINGS 
The American Association for the Advancement of Science 
met in Boston during the holidays. Most of the meetings were 
held in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. 
Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 
was elected president for the current year. The retiring presi- 
dent. E. H. Moore, of the University of Chicago, delivered an ad- 
dress on the subject “What is a Number ?” 
Dr. William M. Wheeler of Bussey Institute was elected pres- 
ident of the American Society of Naturalists and A. Franklin 
Shull, University of Michigan, secretary. Two joint programs 
were presented: “The Development of Biology (particularly Gen- 
etics) in the past Sixty Years’, and a symposium on “Geographi- 
cal Distribution of Animals’. At the banquet Dr. Wheeler gave 
~ his presidential address on ‘‘Academic Biology”’. 
The Entomological Society of America elected Arthur Gibson 
president and Professor C. L. Metcalf of the University of Illi- 
nois secretary. Wednesday’s program was devoted to a sym- 
posium divided into two sections: Part 1 on “Noteworthy ex- 
amples of Adaptation of Insects to Special Environments”, and 
Part 2 dealing with adaptation in a single species of insect or 
with a single unit of adaptation. The annual public address of 
the Society was given Wednesday evening by Professor W. M. 
Wheeler. His subject was “The Physiognomy of Insects”. This 
was a very instructive and interesting address. The subject 
selected for the symposium at the Cincinnati meeting in 1923 
is “Methods of Protection and Defense Among Insects”. 
The 25th Annual Meeting of the Economic Entomologists, un- 
der the presidency of J. C. Saunders and with A. F. Burgess sec- 
retary, was held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, with a 
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