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vice-president (Dr. L. Hektoen) and for a sym- 

 posium upon the subject of " The Regulation of 

 Physical Instruction in Schools and Colleges from 

 the Standpoint of Hygiene." On the afternoon of 

 the thirtieth there was a combined meeting with 

 Section K, the Society of American Bacteriologists 

 and the American Society of Biochemists. The 

 following general papers were read and discussed: 



"Anaphylaxis," by M. J. Rosenau. 



" The Physiological Significance of Creatin and 

 Creatinin," by L. B. Mendel. 



" The Cause and Diagnostic Value of the Venous 

 Pulse," by A. W. Hewlett. 



The meeting was the largest in the history of 

 the society, more than 80 members being present. 



The following were elected to membership: 

 T. G. Brodie, of Toronto; W. W. Hale, of Wash- 

 ington; W. A. Hewlett, of Ann Arbor; A. D. 

 Hirschfelder, of Baltimore; A. Hunter, of Ithaca, 

 N. Y.; D. R. Joseph, of New York; W. J. Meek, 

 of Madison, Wis.; F. R. Miller, of Toronto; F. H. 

 Scott, of Minneapolis; S. Simpson, of Ithaca; C. 

 Voegtlin, of Baltimore. 



The following officers were elected: 



President — W. H. Howell. 



Secretary — R. Hunt. 



Treasurer — W. B. Cannon. 



Additional Members of Council — ^A. J. Carls«n, 

 W. P. Lombard. 



Reed Hunt, 

 Seoretarj) 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF 

 ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



The twenty-first annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Economic Entomologists was 

 held at the Eastern Female High School, Balti- 

 more, Md., December 28 and 29, 1908. The annual 

 address of the president was presented by Dr. S. 

 A. Forbes, on "Aspects of Progress in Economic 

 Entomology." A full program of interesting 

 papers was presented at each session. A general 

 oiseussion of the subject " Do we Need the In- 

 sectary?" was participated in by many of the 

 members and many important facts were brought 

 out in connection with the use of this important 

 accessory to entomological work. 



The report of the secretary showed that the 

 association was making a healthy growth and that 

 it was in a good financial condition. 



A considerable amount of important business 

 was transacted at the meeting which included a 

 revision of the constitution, the adoption of a 

 resolution defining the attitude of the association 



concerning the proposed affiliation of societies in- 

 terested in agricultural science and the adoption 

 of memorial resolutions on the deaths of Dr. 

 William H. Ashmead, Alexander Craw, Dr. James 

 Fletcher, Professor W. G. Johnson and Professor 

 F. H. Snow, members who had died during the 

 past year. 



A long list of uniform common names of insects 

 were adopted on recommendation of the committee 

 on nomenclature. 



Thirty-nine new members were elected. 



The following oiBcers were elected: 



President — Dr. W. E. Britton, New Haven, 

 Conn. 



First Vice-president — ^Dr. E. D. Ball, Logan, 

 Utah. 



Second Vice-president — Professor H. E. Sum- 

 mers, Ames, Iowa. 



Secretary — Mr. A. F. Burgess, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Member of the Committee mi Nomenclature — - 

 Professor Herbert Osborn, Columbus, Ohio. 



Members of the Advisory Board of the Journal 

 of Economic Entomology — Professor Wilmon 

 Newell, Baton Rouge, La., Dr. H. T. Fernald, 

 Amherst, Mass., and Professor Herbert Osborn, 

 Columbus, Ohio. 



Members of the Council of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science — Dr. S. A 

 Forbes, Urbana, 111., and Professor H. E. Sum- 

 mers, Ames, Iowa. 



The attendance was the largest of any meeting 

 in the history of the association, over a hundred 

 being present at every session. 



A. F. BUBGESS, 



Secretary 

 SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE NEW TOKK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 

 SECTION OF BIOLOGY 



The regular meeting of the section held at the 

 American Museum on January 11, 1909, was de- 

 voted to an illustrated lecture by Professor E. B. 

 Poulton, of Oxford University, on " Mimicry 

 among North American Butterflies." The lecturer 

 was introduced by Mr. Charles F. Cox, president 

 of the New York Academy, who made some brief 

 remarks on selection and mimicry. 



Prior to the scientific program a letter was 

 read from Mr. W. K. Gregory, regretfully de- 

 clining the election to the secretaryship of the 

 section for 1909. Dr. L. Hussakof was then nom- 

 inated and elected to the ofiiee for the same term. 



