ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., FEBRUARY, I918. 
Entomology at the Convocation Week Meetings. 
As announced in the News for December last (page 469), 
we shall not print a list of the papers bearing on entomology 
presented at the meetings of various societies at Pittsburgh 
and at Minneapolis, between December 27, 1917, and January 
2, 1918. In spite of the special conditions induced by the 
war and the extremely cold weather upon railroad trans- 
portation, and of the deterrent letter of the President of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science (pub- 
lished in Science for December 28 and elsewhere), the attend- 
ance seems to have been fair. We are informed that 50 to 
60 persons were present at the meetings of the Entomological 
Society, 25 to 50 at those of the Ecological Society, and 20 
to 200 at those of the Naturalists. The total number of papers 
of entomological bearing listed on the printed programs, with 
some additions of which we have been informed, was, at 
Pittsburgh, 96, or, if we add those forming parts of the 
Paleontological Society’s symposium on “Problems in History 
of Faunal and Floral Relationships in the Antillean-Isthmian 
Region and their Bearing on Biologic Relationships of North 
and South America” (8 titles) and those constituting the 
Naturalists’ symposium on “Factors of Organic Evolution” 
(6 titles),—110, and 9 at the Zoologists’ meeting at Minneap- 
olis—a grand total of 119, in comparison with 139 at New 
York in the preceding year (see the NEws for February, 1917, 
page 88). 
The above-quoted total of 96 was made up of 24 papers 
from the program of the Entomological Society of America, 
48 from that of the American Association of Economic Ento- 
mologists with 7 from its Apicultural and 4 from its Horti- 
cultural Inspection Sections, 3 from the Ecological Society of 
America, 1 from the American Phytopathological Society, 
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