90 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb., '15 



Doings of Societies. 



THE CONVOCATION WEEK MEETINGS. 

 The American Association of Economic Entomologists and 

 the Entomological Society of America held their annual meet- 

 ings in Philadelphia between December 28th, 191 4, and Janu- 

 ary I, 191 5, as announced in the News for December, 1914, 

 pages 469-470, except that the closing session of the former 

 occurred in the morning, instead of the evening, of December 

 31. One hundred were in attendance at the Tuesday after- 

 noon session of the Economic Entomologists, seventy-five at 

 the Thursday afternoon and fifty-six at the Friday morning 

 sessions of the Entomological Society. These are probably 

 not the maximum figures. Fifty-seven papers were listed on 

 the programs of the Economic Entomologists, twenty-seven on 

 that of the Entomological Society. Ten papers relating to in- 

 sects were included in the list of the joint meetings of the 

 American Society of Zoologists and Section F (Zoology) of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Two others of entomological bearing were presented else- 

 where. The total of 96 exceeds those of 85 and 74 for the 

 corresponding societies in 1912 and 1913 respectively. The 

 proceedings of these societies will be duly published elsewhere, 

 but it will be of some interest to our readers to present here 

 the titles of the papers, grouped according to subject. Those 

 unmarked are from the program of the Economic Entomolo- 

 gists, those starred (*) from that of the Entomological So- 

 ciety ; others are designated by abbreviations of the respective 

 societies' names. 



GENERAL SUBJECTS.--H. T. Fernald, Amherst, Mass., Annual 

 Address of the President. Some Present Needs of Economic Ento- 

 mology. — Stephen Alfred Forbes, University of Illinois, Ecological 

 Foundations of Applied Entomology.* — Henry Skinner, Acadejny of 

 Natural Sciences, A History of the Entomological Society of America.* 

 — W. E. Britton, New Haven, Conn., The Academic Training of the 

 Entomologists in Colleges and Experiment Stations of the United 

 States. — V. E. Shelford, Urbana, 111., Suggestions as to the Original 

 Habitat and Distribution of Various Native Insect Pests. — Charles 



