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Programme : Mr. G. P. Engelhardt, on " The Sesidse of Long Island," 

 which will be published later. Mr. Bueno presented a paper on " West- 

 chester Miridse — A First Notice," which will appear later in the Bulletin. 



Report of the Secretary of the Brooklyn Entomological Society for 

 1915 : In the year just past, the Brooklyn Entomological Society has pur- 

 sued the even tenor of its way. No events of the first magnitude have 

 disturbed its steady progress. Perhaps the most worthy of its achieve- 

 ments is the continued support given to its Bulletin, which, rejuvenated 

 under the guiding and fostering hand of its editor, is worthily continuing 

 the tradition of its predecessors, maintaining a high standard and striving 

 for an ever higher, on a practically self-supporting basis. The scientific 

 papers have ranged " from China to Peru," all phases of our favorite 

 science have been touched upon and hitherto unknown facts have been 

 illuminatingly presented to us. The titles have ranged from " The Sacred 

 Scarab Beetle," type of the self-existing Egyptian Sun-God, to "Mos- 

 quito Destruction in the Suburbs of Brooklyn," five thousand years apart 

 in time and 10,000 miles in space. No less than fourteen papers of quality 

 were presented in eight meetings. Under Long Island records 86 species 

 have been reported as occurring on the island, not heretofore noted, con- 

 tributed by Messrs. Davis, Nicolay, Shoemaker, Engelhardt, Franck, Dow, 

 Weeks, Olsen, Doll, Pasch and Bueno. 



Attendance at meetings ranged from 11, in May, to 17 in February and 

 October, with an average of 14 plus. The most constant attendants, pres- 

 ent at every meeting as beseems officers, were Messrs. Olsen, Dow, Bather. 

 Twenty-six members attended one or more meetings, and there were also 

 thirteen visitors. Two members resigned in the year, Messrs. Pearsall 

 and Levinson ; and three were elected. 



On the whole, the Society may be said to have prospered in the year 

 past. It is undiminished in numbers, and while the insect frontiers recede 

 further away from the city day by day, the " Old Guard dies but never 

 surrenders," and keeps its spirit young while it lives ; when it falls the 

 younger generation steps in full of vim and enthusiasm to carry on the 

 work one step further till they too shall merge into the cosmos, their 

 material forms dissolved into the elements that compose them ; their ego 

 persisting in their worthy work ; and their souls returning to the Infinite, 

 whence they came to do their share in the progress of the race of man. 



The Brooklyn Entomological Society shall go on through the impulse 

 of these labors, to continue by its activities that tradition handed down 

 from John B. Smith and his fellow worthies, which constitutes their 

 precious legacy to us. J. R. de la'Torre-Bueno, 



Secretary. 



