28 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



In regard to the publication " Birds," which title has recently been enlarged to 

 " Birds and all Nature," and which has begun giving excellent illustrations of butter- 

 flies and mammals in addition to the plates of birds, it seems a great pity that with 

 such beautiful plates it is not considered worth while attempting to make the text of 

 some scientific value. 



Another popular book under the name of " Every-Day Butterflies," from the facile 

 pen of Dr. Scudder, is announced and will contain familiar and fully illustrated 

 accounts of sixty or more of the commonest butterflies, taken in the order of the 

 season. 



In conclusion I have to express my indebtedness to Dr. Howard, Dr. Smith and 

 Prof. Fernald for the kind manner in which they responded to my inquiries, and for the 

 valuable information afforded and suggestions offered, which have materially contributed 

 to any interest which my address may possess, and to you, gentlemen, my acknow- 

 ledgments are due for the patience with which you have listened to me. 



Dr. Fyles, in rising to move a vote of thanks to the President for his valuable and 

 interesting paper, said that he approved of the address with one exception namely, that 

 when so good a worker, so good a collector, read so good a paper as the address just given, 

 he should not call himself an amateur. Dr. Wm. Saunders seconded the motion He 

 had listened with great pleasure to the address, so full of admirable suggestions showing 

 the keenest interest and deep insight into the needs of the active entomologist. He 

 called attention to the many interesting statements of the investigation now progressing. 

 Carried. 



Mr. Lyman briefly acknowledged the vote, saying that as he was not a professional 

 entomologist he must be an amateur. 



Mr. W. E. Saunders, referred to the President's suggestion of the formation of an 

 American Entomologists' Union, and spoke of the good work done by the American 

 Ornithologists' Union, in preventing needless changes of nomenclature and in other 

 important matters. Mr. A. E. Norris spoke on the importance of uniformity of setting, 

 strongly approving the President's suggestion of a Union to authoritatively settle all such 

 matters. He would favor the giving of greater attention by the societies to the working 

 out and making complete exhibitions of the life histories of insects, as such exhibits are 

 at once the most interesting and instructive. 



A paper entitled " Some International features of Economic Entomology " by Prof. 

 F. M. Webster, Wooster, Ohio, was then read by Dr. Fletcher. 



SOME ECONOMIC FEATUES OF INTERNATIONAL ENTOMOLOGY. 



By F. M. Webster. 



When that massive ridge of Archaean rock, the backbone, so to speak, of the future 

 American continent, was first laid down, stretching away from northwest to southeast, it 

 is hardly to be supposed that it was cut in twain from east to west by some huge chasm, 

 which, in future ages, was to separate from each other two distinct worlds of animal life, 

 with no inter-communication between them. 



Nor is it more likely that, after the ponderous ice sheets of the Glacial Period had 

 plowed their way from the far north, crushing and grinding the solid rock and trans- 

 porting huge boulders from the area that we are now pleased to term Canada, far to the 

 southward, and depositing them along what is now the Ohio River, there should have 

 been thrown athwart this pathway an invisible barrier across which animal life could not 

 by any possibility make its way. 



It was nature that hollowed out the beds of the great, turbulent lakes and furrowed 

 out the course of gigantic Niagara, but it was uncivilized man who first chose to make 

 these barriers between himself and his enemies ; and while civilized man has followed the 



