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THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



PROCEEDINGS OP THE SEVENTH ANNUAL 



MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL 



CLUB OF THE A. A. A. S. 



[The following minutes of this meeting" were kindly fur- 

 nished by the efficient Secretary of the Club, Mr. B. P. 

 Mann. The papers themselves are omitted, as they have been, 

 or will be, published in these columns or elsewhere. — Ed.] 



The Seventh Annual Meeting was held, 

 as announced, in the lecture room of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, at Bos- 

 ton, Mass., beginning on the 24th day of 

 August, t88o. More than fifty persons 

 were present, of whom the following are 

 best known for their interest or work in 

 entomology : 



E. P. Austin, Boston. 



H. F. Bassett, Waterbur}^ 

 C. J. S. Bethune, Port Hope. 



F. Blanchard, Lowell. 



F. C. Bowditch, Brookline. 

 E. Burgess, Boston. 



T. J. Burrill, Champaign. 

 Cora H. Clarke, Boston. 

 A. J. Cook, Lansing. 

 C. R. Dodge, Washington. 

 J. H. Emerton, Salem. 

 C. H. Fernald, Orono. 



C. Fish, Oldtown. 



E. L. Graef, Brooklyn. 



A. R. Grote, New York. 

 H. A. Hagen, Cambridge. 

 S. S. Haldeman, Chickies. 

 S. Henshaw, Boston. 



H. Hinkley, 



P. R. Hoy, Racine. 



J. L. LeConte, Philadelphia. 



J. A. Lintner, Albany. 



H. H. Lyman, Montreal. 



G. Macloskie, Princeton. 



H. C. McCook, Philadelphia. 



B. P. Mann, Cambridge. 

 E. L. Mark, 



D. S. Martin, New York. 



C. S. Minot; Boston. 



J. G. Morris, Baltimore. 



E. S. Morse, Salem. 



A. S. Packard, Jr., Providence. 

 J. D. Putnam, Davenport. 

 C. V. Riley, Washington. 

 S. H. Scudder, Cambridge. 

 G. F. Waters, Boston. 

 O. S. Westcott, Racine. 

 S. Whitney, Watertown. 



The meeting was called to order at 2.13 

 P. M. by the retiring President, Mr. J. A. 

 Lmtner, of Albany, who introduced the 

 President of this meeting, Mr. S. H. 

 Scudder, of Cambridge. 



Mr. Scudder delivered his address as 

 President [printed in September No.]. 



The report of the meeting at Saratoga 

 was then read by the Secretary, and was 

 approved. 



The President read a letter from Mr. 

 Wm. Saunders, regretting his inability 

 to be present, owing to a severe accident. 

 He also read the titles of papers which 

 would be presented to the Club, in addition 

 to those already announced in the circular. 



Dr. Morris announced that he would 

 present a paper by Prof. Cyrus Thomas on 

 the "Migration of Locusts." 



Mr. Grote was called upon first to read 

 his paper on "Generic Characters in the 

 Noctuidae." 



Prof. Cook followed with his paper on the 

 "Contributions of Agriculture to Science." 



Dr. J. G. Morris inquired whether Prof. 

 Cook had ever tried to starve bees, and 

 then furnish them with grapes, in order to 

 learn whether they would puncture the 

 grapes for the sake of obtaining the juices. 

 Prof. Cook said that he had not done that, 

 but that he had placed bruised grapes be- 

 fore them, which they sucked, and then 

 he had placed whole grapes before them, 

 but they would not puncture the skin. In 

 response to a question, Prof. Cook stated 

 that while he had never known bees to eat 

 meat, yet they would suck the juices from 

 meat. 



The committee appointed to collect the 

 informal ballots for officers reported that 

 the following candidates had received a 

 majority of ballots for the respective 

 offices : for President, Rev. Dr. J. G. Mor- 

 ris, of Baltimore ; for Vice-President, Prof. 

 C. V. Riley, of Washington ; for Secretary, 

 Mr. B. P. Mann, of Cambridge. On 

 motion, the informal ballot was made 

 formal, and the candidates nominated were 

 elected officers of the club for the ensuing 

 year. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder exhibited to the mem- 

 bers several plates of his forthcoming 

 paper on fossil insects, to be published in 

 Hayden's Survey ; also the manuscript fig- 

 ures of his contemplated work on Butter- 

 flies of New England. 



