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Monday evening, February 5. Regular meeting; fourteen 

 members present. President in the chair. 



By reason of a conflict in dates, Section A met on the same 

 evening, and through an amicable arrangement each section in 

 turn became guest of the other. The special feature of Section 

 B's contribution was a paper by the Secretary, "Notes on Or- 



thoptera." 



Mondaj^ evening, February 19. Regular meeting; thirteen 

 members present. The President in the chair. 



The Diptera supplied the topic for the President's elementary 

 talk. 



Miss Amelia Iv. Graupner read the paper of the evening, 

 "Bees ; a Study in Venation." The paper, which was illustrat- 

 ed by blackboard drawings of special types, and by mounted 

 slides of the wings of bees found about Manchester, including 

 Andrena, Halictus, Augochlora, Ceratina, Bombus and others, 

 led to an interesting discussion of the sub-marginal cells, and the 

 relative position of the recurrent nervures. 



Monday evening, March 5. Regular meeting ; tv/enty mem- 

 bers present. The President in the chair. 



A plan for a summer school in connection with the Institute, 

 which should enlarge the scope of Sections B, C, D and F, was 

 submitted by the President. 



Miss May W. Davis read a paper containing an account of 

 personal observations made during August, 1898, upon Chion- 

 aspis furfurus, or the scurfy bark louse, found infesting a Mount- 

 ain Ash (Sorbus amtricanus) on the west shore of I^ake Winni- 

 piseogee. This tree had previously been cut, and had grown 

 again, in the form of several shoots from the original trunk. 

 The older, woody stems or branches near the ground were en- 

 tirely encased by these scales, forming a complete covering, so 

 closely did they touch and overlap one another. To the casual 

 observer it appeared as a rough, gray bark. Nearer the top 

 and on the younger branches, the insects were not so numerous, 

 but in the protected spots, as the axils of the branches and twigs, 

 the scales appeared to be crowded into uneven layers. On the 



