Record. : Ixvil 
During the year the following donations to the library were 
received: 
Dr. L. W. Andrews—Two pamphlets on chemistry. 
Dr. G. Baumgarten—Four books on botany. 
Dr. C. H. Danforth—One botanical and one zoological pamphlet. 
Mr. J. A. Drushel—One geological pamphlet. 
Dr. Edward Evers—Copies of Globus and Naturwissenschaftliche 
Rundschau. 
Mr. D. K. Greger—One pamphlet on geology. 
Dr. J. Orth—Four medical pamphlets. 
Mr. H. D. Reed—Three zoological pamphlets. 
Dr. Heber Robarts—A book and a pamphlet on radium, 
Mr. W. H. Roever—Two mathematical pamphlets. 
Saint Louis Chemical Society—A biographical sketch of Dr. H. A. 
Hunicke. 
Dr. Enno Sander—Copies of Science and Pharmaceutical Journals. 
Dr. T. J. J. See—One astronomical pamphlet. 
Dr. Wm. Trelease—One pamphlet on Darwin. 
Mr. Frank Springer—One geological pamphlet. 
Dr. Meyer Wiener—Five medical pamphlets. 
CurRATOR’S REPORT. 
. The Curators reported that during the year donations were received 
from: 
Dr. Gustav Baumgarten—Seal of the Western Academy of Sciences. 
Mr. F. C. Greene—Fossil cephalopods from Fox Hill Sandstone, 
South Dakota. 
Dr. A. E. Horwitz—Five sea-urchins from the coast of France. 
Mrs. H. A. Hunicke—Portrait of Dr. H. Aug. Hunicke. 
Miss Mary J. Klem—Specimen of fossil Sigallaria from Veeders- 
burg, Ind. 
Dr. Albert Merrill—Fine specimen of molybedenum of lead from 
Colorado. 
Mr. Ernest Schwarz—Case showing mimicry of the Catocala moth. 
Dr. George W. Bock kindly labeled a case of Coleoptera. 
REPORT OF THE F\NTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 3, 1910. 
To the Academy of Science of St. Louis: 
Since my last report to you in May of the last year, the Entomo- 
logical Section has met regularly every month except in June and 
August. 
At the May meeting Mr. H. Schwarz presented a paper on Scale 
Insects (Coccidae) with special reference to Kermis galliformis Riley. 
Mr. Rau reported having bred some Chalcid parasites from eggs of 
Stagmomantis carolina Linn. He also stated having preserved an egg 
