ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Philadelphia, Pa., July, 1919. 



International Relations of Entomological Societies after the War. 

 At the meeting of the Entomological Society of France, held 

 December 24, 191 8, the Council of the Society made a report 

 on international relations after the war. After reciting the 

 action taken by the Society from time to time as to its mem- 

 bership from countries with which France was at war, in- 

 cluding the expulsion of all those of its members who belonged 

 to enemy nations, as voted on March 28, 191 7, the report says 

 [translation] : 



Now that the war is finished, the accounts ought to be regul_ated and 

 definitively closed. Your Council .... has been specially incited 

 by the decision recently taken by the interallied conference of scientific 

 academies held at London October 9-1 1 last. An extract from the 

 resolutions of this conference .... have recently been sent to the 

 Entomological Society by the Academy of Sciences. [Then follow 

 quotations from the proceedings of the conference, after which the 

 Council of the society recommended the adoption of this statement:] 



The Entomological Society of France declares that, for a period 

 subsequently to be indicated : 



1. No individual appertaining to the nations which have made war 

 on the allied nations can be admitted as a member of the Society. 



We designedly employ the expression "which have made war," and 

 not "which have been at war," in order to specify that we do not 

 intend to touch by this interdict members of nationalities oppressed 

 for a long time by the German and Austro-Hungarian empires and 

 who found themselves, against their will, in a state of war with us — 

 Danes, Czechs, Poles, Croats, etc., or with greater reason, is it neces- 

 sary to say, our brothers of all time, Alsatians and Lorrainers. 



2. Under penalty of expulsion, no member of the Entomological 

 Society of France can take part in scientific societies of nations which 

 have made war on the allied nations. 



Those members of the Society who belong to enemy societies should, 

 as soon as circumstances will permit them, send in their resignations 

 as members of those societies in such way as they prefer, either indi- 

 vidually or collectively. 



3. Under penalty of expulsion, no member of the Entomological 



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