Vol. II, Wo. 6.] INSECT LIFE. [December, 1 8§9. 



SPECIAL NOTES. 



The Official Association of Economic Entomologists.— We devote consid- 

 erable space in this number to the official minutes of the first annual 

 meeting of this association, which was held November 12, 13, and 14 

 in this city, as announced in Vol. II, No. 4. The meeting was very suc- 

 cessful, both in point of attendance and in the character of the discus- 

 sions and the papers read, and it was especially gratifying to have so 

 many who were not in attendance apply for active and associate mem- 

 bership. The general sentiment, as expressed in discussing such ques- 

 tions as that of co- operation, seemed to be that the association should 

 retain the broader character originally designed, which would include 

 in its membership others engaged or interested in economic entomol- 

 ogy who are not necessarily connected officially with agricultural col- 

 leges or experiment stations, though it is very evident that the more 

 active members will consist of those officially employed in one way or 

 another. In view of the simultaneous meeting in the same museum 

 building of the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations, the question of how the entomological organization could best 

 co-operate with the other was one of the most interesting, and one 

 which it seemed at first difficult to solve. The fact that the Associa- 

 tion of Colleges and Experiment Stations decided to organize commit- 

 tees in different specialties — one being in entomology — to a certain ex- 

 tent limited the co-operation, and at the same time facilitated it, since 

 said committee, working with a similar committee from the entomolog- 

 ical association, will be able to perfect plans of co-operation and help 

 to carry them out. 



Studies in Embryology.— We have just received from the author a valu- 

 able contribution to our knowledge of the embryology of insects in a 

 paper by William M. Wheeler, curator of the public museum, Milwau- 

 kee, Wis., entitled " The Embryology of Blatta germanica and Doryphora 

 decemlineata," reprinted from the Journal of Morphology, Vol. Ill, No. 2, 

 September, 1889. 



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