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was called by Mr. Edward Foster, who liad 

 received assm'ances of support from about 

 twenty-five entomological workers. Ten per- 

 sons were present. They heartily endorsed 

 the plan, and favored the organization of a 

 society to be known as the Louisiana Ento- 

 mological Society, to be domiciled at the 

 Natural History Building of the Louisiana 

 State Museum, Jackson Square, ISTew Orleans. 

 A committee on constitution was elected, and 

 the next meeting was placed at April 2. 



On that date the first regular meeting was 

 held and the constitution was adopted. The 

 following officers were elected: President, Mr. 

 Edward Foster, state nursery inspector; Vice- 

 President, Professor 0. W. Eosewall, pro- 

 fessor of entomology, Louisiana State Univer- 

 sity; Secretary- Treasurer, Mr. T. E. Holloway, 

 of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology. An ex- 

 ecutive committee composed of the officers 

 with the addition of Messrs. 0. K. Courtney, 

 of the Federal Horticultural Board, and 

 Charles E. Smith and T. H. Cutrer, both of 

 the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, was pro- 

 vided. It was decided that meetings are to be 

 held on the first Fridays of February, April, 

 June, October and December, the June meet- 

 ing to be a Field Day, and the December 

 meeting to be the annual meeting. The dues 

 were placed at $1.00 per annum. Any person 

 interested in the science of entomology is 

 eligible for membership. 



Mr. Eobert M. Glenk, curator of the mu- 

 seum, very kindly placed at the disposal of 

 the society a large and well-lighted lecture 

 room, library and laboratory space, a moving 

 picture outfit, and financial assistance in pub- 

 lishing the proceedings of the society. 



T. E. Holloway, 

 Secretary-Treasurer 



THE SOUTHWESTERN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



At the annual meeting of the Southwestern 

 Geological Society held at Dallas, Texas, on 

 March 19, Eobert T. Hill of Dallas was re- 

 elected president of that organization. Other 

 officers elected were Charles E. Decker, of the 

 University of Oklahoma, and William F. 

 Kennedy, vice-presidents; Ellis W. Shuler, of 



the Southern Methodist University of Dallas, 

 secretary, and E. B. Whitehead, treasurer. 

 Members of the comicil are John A. Udden, 

 Jerry ISTewby, Dr. H. P. Bybee, of the Uni- 

 versity of Texas, W. E. Wrather and D. W. 

 Ohern. 



Following the meeting the annual dinner 

 was held in the roof garden of the Adolphus 

 Hotel. More than 100 members of the 

 society were present. Dr. George Otis Smith, 

 of Washington, D. C, director of the United 

 States Geological Survey; Dr. I. C. White of 

 Morgantown, W. Va., president of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Petroleum Geologists were 

 guests at the dinner. 



This organization now numbers over 130 

 members and is doing much good in getting 

 together the various geological workers in the 

 southwest. 



THE AMERICAN ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY 



The American Electrochemical Society held 

 its thirty-seventh meeting at Boston and Cam- 

 bridge on April 8, 9 and 10. The members 

 were welcomed by Professor H. P. Talbot, of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 The annual address by the president. Dr. 

 Wilder D. Bancroft, of Cornell University, 

 lieutenant-colonel in the United States Army, 

 was on " Contact Catalysis." It was followed 

 by a symposium of " Colloid Chemistry." 



Smnmarizing the report from the board 

 of directors, the secretary, Professor J. W. 

 Eichards, said that the directors had protested 

 against the abolition of the Chemical War- 

 fare Service. The membership of the asso- 

 ciation has been materially increased during 

 the year; it was 1,903 on January 1, 1919, 

 and 2,209 on January 1, 1920, and is now 

 2,307. The treasury of the organization also 

 is in a healthy condition, with $13,000 in- 

 vested, largely in government bonds, and 

 $4,000 cash assets. 



Officers have been elected as follows: 

 President, Walter S. Landis, chief tech- 

 nologist of the American Cyanamid Company 

 of New York; vice-presidents. Dr. John A. 

 Mathews, president and general manager of 

 the Halcomb Steel Company of Syracuse. 



