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Mr. Webster offered a resolution relating to the publication of the 
proceedings of the present meeting, as follows: 
Resolved, That we respectfully request the publication as heretofore of the pro- 
ceedings of the present meeting in Insect Life, and that the secretary he requested 
to prepare the same for publication, and that he be asked to prepare an abstract of the 
proceedings for publication in the Canadian Entomologist. 
The resolution was adopted. 
Mr. Aldrich, of Idaho, proposed Mr. G. 0. Davis for membership. 
It was moved by Mr. Webster that the chair be requested to appoint 
a committee of three to nominate officers for the coming year. 
The President called attention to section 3 of Article II of the by- 
laws, in which unanimous consent of the voting members is required to 
suspend the regular method of electing officers by ballot after open 
nomination. 
It was voted this consent be granted, and the chair then appointed 
on the committee Messrs. Osborn, Webster, and Weed. 
The following paper was then read : 
DESTRUCTIVE SCOLYTIDS AND THEIR IMPORTED ENEMY. 
By A. D. Hopkins, Morgantown, TV. Va. 
Within the last three years enough evidence has come under my 
observation of the destructive powers of Scolytid bark and timber 
beetles to convince me that they are among the worst enemies of our 
forest trees. In fact it is my belief that bark and timber beetles have 
caused the loss of more property, having a commercial value in West 
Virginia, within the last ten years than that occasioned by any other 
single class of insects within the same time. 
The destruction in our jrine and spruce forests alone, resulting from 
the primary attack of a single species of bark beetle, has caused, since 
1890, the loss of timber having a value of not less than a million and a 
half dollars. 
Certain great devastations in the spruce forests of Maine, New 
Hampshire, New York, New Brunswick, France, and Germany since 
1860 were evidently the work of bark beetles, which, aided by timber 
beetles, not only cause the death of trees, but so damage the wood and 
hasten its decay that the timber soon becomes worthless, and in this 
country proves almost a total loss. 
The destructive species of Scolytids may be divided into two classes, 
one class, including only a limited number, makes the primary attack, 
or prefers to enter the bark, roots, and wood of living trees and other 
plants. The other class has a preference for injured, unhealthy, or 
felled trees, etc., the bark and wood of which these insects infest for the 
purpose of perpetuating their species. The first is primarily to blame for 
causing the death of trees, or at least a diseased condition, while the 
