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The excellence and value of the photographs exhibited were com- 

 mented on in most flattering terms by Mr. Fernald and Mr. Lintner. 



Mr. Hopkins also exhibited some photographs which were taken by 

 placing the objects to be photographed on glass, which prevented the 

 presence of shadows. 



In the matter of the number of broods of the codling moth, Mr. 

 Slingerland stated that as a general rule there is certainly but one 

 brood in New York. 



Mr. Fernald said that his experience indicated but a single brood for 

 the codling moth in Maine. 



Mr. Fletcher had found one brood to be the rule in Canada, except 

 west of Toronto, where two broods are normal. 



In response to a query by Mr. Smith, Mr. Slingerland described his 

 method of preserving larvae to keep the form and color. He said that 

 it consisted in first dropping them in boiling water for about one minute, 

 then placing them for permanent keeping in 50 per cent alcohol. 



Mr. Smith said that he was following the same method, only varying 

 in that he placed them for final preservation in a 2 per cent solution of 

 formaline. 



Mr. Lintner presented the following paper : 



NOTES ON SOME OF THE INSECTS OF THE YEAR IN THE STATE 



OF NEW YORK. 



By J. A. Lintner, Albany, JS r . Y. 



The year has been characterized by the absence of attacks of the 

 usual severity of a considerable number of our common insect pests, 

 particularly those that iufest our fruit trees. I do not recall a year 

 before the present one in which reports have not been received by me 

 of abundance of the apple-tree aphis (Ai)Ms mall Linn.), and of injuries 

 feared from it. The eye-spotted bud-moth (Tmetocera ocellana Schiff.), 

 which has become so destructive to orchards in the western counties 

 of the State, has hardly been heard from. No abundant presence of 

 the apple-leaf Bucculatrix (Bncculatrix pomifoliella Clem.), has been 

 reported; nor of the apple case-bearer (Coleophora fletclierella Fern.), 

 until incidentally mentioned at the present meeting. The apple-tree 

 tent-caterpillar (Clisiocampa americana Harr.), has been less injurious 

 than in preceding years. The hop-vine aphis (Phorodon humiili Schr.), 

 made its appearance late in the season, in August, in portions of Madi- 

 son and Oneida counties, and the blackening of the leaves from deposit 

 of honeydew excited some alarm, but it is not believed that serious 

 harm has been done. 



So far as my observation has extended, confirmed also by the obser- 

 vation of several collectors and others, with a few notable exceptions, 

 the year has also been remarkable for a scarcity of insect life. Some 

 short excursions made in the vicinity of Albany, specially for collecting, 



