1395.] Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 959 
Benjamin K. Emerson, of Amherst ; F—Zoology, Theodore N. Gill, of 
Washington, D. C.; G—Botany, N. L. Britton, of New York City; 
H—Anthropology, Alice C. Fletcher, of Washington, D. C.; I—Social 
Science, William R. Lazenby, of Columbus, Ohio; General Secretary 
—Charles R. Barnes, of Madison, Wis.; Secretary of the Council— 
Asaph Hall, Jr., of Ann Arbor, Mich. ; Secretaries of the Sections—A 
—Mathematies and Astronomy, Edwin B. Frost, of Hanover, N. H.; 
B—Physics, Frank P. Whitman, of Cleveland, Ohio ; C—Chemistry, 
Frank P. Venable, of Chapel Hill, N. C.; D—Mechanical Science and 
Engineering, John Galbraith, of Toronto, Can.; E—Geology and 
Geography, A. C. Gill, of Ithaca, N. Y.; F—Zoology, D. S. Kellicott, 
of Columbus, Ohio; G—Botany, George F. Atkinson, of Ithaca, N. 
Y.; H—Anthropology, John G. Bourke, United States Army; I— 
Social Science, R. T. Colburn, of Elizabeth, N. J.; Treasurer—R. S. 
Woodward, of New York, N. Y 
The Annual Report of Secretary Putnam showed that 367 members 
have been in attendance, all parts of the country being well represen- 
ted. From Springfied there were 15 and from the rest of Massachusetts 
56. The other leading States were as follows: New York 90, District of 
Columbia 39, Pennsylvania 29, Ohio 18, Connecticut 14, Indiana 12. 
There were 185 new members elected and 58 made fellows. Four have 
died during the year. There have been three public lectures and 207 
papers, divided as follows among the sections: A 16, B 34, C 42 D 6, 
E 17, F 16, G 28, H 33, 113. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Dr. Charles Valentine Riley curator of the department of En- 
tomology in the U. S. National Museum died Sept. 15th in consequence 
of being thrown from a bicycle on the previous day. 
The eminent scientist was born in London in 1843 and he attended 
schools in France and Germany. For six years he studied on the Con- 
tinent of Europe. Two passions characterized his boyhood—one for 
collecting insects, the other for drawing and painting. 
At the age of 17 he sailed for New York, where, after a seven weeks’ 
voyage, he arrived with little means. He went West and settled upon 
a farm in Illinois. Here he remained for four years, and acquired an 
experience of practical agriculture. About the time of his majority he 
commenced journalistic work in Chicago, where, in connection with his 
work on the paper, he gave special attention to botany and entomology. 
In 1868 he accepted the office of State entomologist of Missouri. In 
the Spring of 1878 he was tendered the position of entomologist to the 
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