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FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
Official Organ of The Florida Entomological Society, Gainesville, 
Florida. 
CR ee WATSON: te ce eon Ne a ee ee ee Oe Editor 
VV ATI SIONS HINGES Wi sae os ee a eee Associate Editor 
PROF. JOHN GRAY:.2 22. 2-02. eee eee Business Manager 
Issued once every three months. Free to all members of the 
Society. 
Subscription price to non-members is $1.00 per year in ad- 
vance; 35 cents per copy. 
MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY 
Nov. 8, The Society met in Science Hall with President J. 
S. Rogers in the chair and the following members present: 
Bates, Bratley, Berger, Cody, Floyd, Hubbell, Merrill, and Wat- 
son. Visitors present were Prof. H. B. Sherman of the Depart- 
ment of Biology, Chardkoff, Limebaugh, and Miller. 
The resignation of Mr. Beyer as Secretary and Business Man- 
ager of the Entomologist was presented. The Society voted an 
expression of gratitude to Mr. Beyer for his long, faithful and 
efficient service to the Society. Mr. Homer Bratley was elected 
Secretary of the Society and Professor John Gray Treasurer and 
Business Manager of the Entomologist. 
The paper of the evening was by Prof. T. H. Hubbell on “The 
Biology of the Grouse Locusts’. He gave a detailed and com- 
prehensive discussion of the food, breeding habits, habitats, and 
color variations of these small orthoptera. They feed mostly 
on decaying vegetation in the soil and inhabit moist ground 
along the borders of swamps and streams. They are of little 
economic importance. Unlike most orthoptera these insects 
are good divers and can remain under water for some time. 
Mr. M. T. Inman, a chemist of the Kay Research Company 
of Pittsburgh, Pa., is spending the winter in Gainesville carry- 
ing on investigations with an insecticide called ‘“aldehol,” a 
mixture of comparatively high boiling point alcohols, aldehy- 
dides, and other oxidized hydrocarbons. 
