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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec. r 
The officers elected for the year 1912 are as follows: 
Director J. Cheston Morris, M.D. 
Vice-Director T. Chalkley Palmer. 
Recorder Charles S. Boyer. 
Treasurer Thomas S. Stewart, M.D. 
Corresponding Secretary Silas L. Schumo. 
Conservator F. J. Keeley. 
Charles S. Boyer, 
Recorder. 
Entomological Section. 
The usual meetings of the Section have been held and the com¬ 
munications made have been published in Entomological News. 
During, the year 8,398 specimens of insects have been added to 
the collection, and a considerable part of this number have been 
incorporated with the various sections of the cabinet. Sixteen tin 
cases have been purchased, fifty glass-covered boxes, and 201 Schmidt 
boxes. 
The determination of the Diptera is being continued and several 
lots sent in by collectors have contained species that were new to the 
cabinet. These additions have in some cases necessitated the 
rearrangement of families. The collection of southwestern Hemip- 
tera determined by Mr. E. P. Van Duzee last year is being incor¬ 
porated into the general collection. In the Orthoptera a large 
amount of work has been done on African material; the North 
American series has been rearranged and the exotic collections as 
far as determined. 
The Bruner collection of Orthoptera, containing 22,000 specimens 
and 600 types, purchased by Mr. Morgan Hebard, has been deposited. 
When the new rooms for the department are completed Mr. 
Hebard will also place on deposit his own large collection of these 
insects. 
In the order Hymenoptera the family Microgasterinae has been 
rearranged. 
The Micro-lepidoptera have all been mounted preparatory to the 
rearrangement of these moths. 
The F. E. Bond Collection made in Venezuela by Prof. Stewardson 
Brown, contained over a thousand specimens. These, as well as 
the material collected in southern Texas by Henry A. Wenzel, have 
been mounted. 
