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Dr. Morris was unanimously elected Chairman, and Mr. Saunders 
Secretary. It was then moved by Mr. Bethune, and resolved, that “if it be 
found necessary, the Chairman and Secretary be requested to communi- 
cate with the Standing Committee of the Association, with a view to the 
- organization of an Entomological Sub-section.” The following gentlemen 
* were appointed members of the provisional Committee of the Sub-section: 
Rev..C. J. S. Bethune, Messrs. C. V. Riley, and O. S. Westcott. The 
meeting then adjourned till 7 o’clock p.m. 
At the evening meeting there were present, in addition to those men- 
as above, Messrs. H. H. Babcock, Chicago; M.S. Bebb, Fairmont, 
; J. H. Blodgett, Rockford, IL ; H. C. Warner, Claremont, Iowa, 
oe C. M. Weatherby, Dubuque, fone: 
The Chairman having announced that it would be necessary to obtain 
the consent of the Standing Committee before a Sub-section could be 
legally organized, it was resolved that the Secretary be requested to 
inform the Permanent Secretary of the Association that it is deemed 
desirable by the entomological members that a Sub-section of Entomology 
should be formed’ in Section B. 
It was then moved by Mr. Riley, and resolved, that a committee be 
appointed to draft a set of rules for adoption at the next meeting of the 
Association on the subject of entomological nomenclature. The Chair- 
man nominated the following committee :—-Messrs. Riley, Bethune, 
Packard (Salem), Saunders and Morris. 
The meeting then proceeded to discuss the ‘ Revision of American 
Butterflies” recently put forth by Mr. S. H. Scudder, in advance of his 
forthcoming work on the Butterflies of North America. There was a 
unanimous expression of regret and disapprobation on the part of those. 
present at the wholesale and radical changes proposed by this distin- 
guished author in the generic and specific names of the butterflies of this 
‘Continent. The feeling was manifested by all, that changes so radical 
and so sweeping in the received nomenclature were uncalled for, and 
would prove of great detriment to the study and popularity of this depart- 
ment of entomology. The hope was strongly expressed by all, that Mr. 
Scudder would reconsider his proposed changes before the publication of 
his great work, which is looked forward to with so much interest by all 
lepidopterists, and not mar to a great extent its usefulness, or injure its 
general acceptance. 
The meeting then adjourned. At the general meeting of the Associ- 
ation on the following Monday, a recommendation was brought forward 
