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Published: 2015-08-04

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Excerpt from Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Vol. 2 The fourth meeting of the Entomological Society of America was held in Baltimore, December 30th and 31st, 1908, in affiliation with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The meeting was called to order by the President, Dr. W. M. Wheeler, in the Eastern High School, at 11 A. M., December 31st. The minutes of the previous meeting were adopted as printed. Dr. Fernald read the report of the committee on nomenclature. Moved and carried that this report be received and printed and discussed one year later, and that this should be the general policy in dealing with these reports. This report is appended to the minutes. The Managing Editor made an informal report upon the condition of the Annals. Moved and carried that the chair appoint a committee on nominations. The chair appointed Messrs. C. W. Johnson, C. L. Marlatt and H. T. Fernald. The President announced the death during the year of Dr. W. H. Ashmead, an Honorary Fellow, Dr. James Fletcher, a Fellow; and of three members, C. Abbott Davis, Albert V. Taylor and Alexander Craw. The President announced that he had appointed Committees to draw up suitable resolutions upon the death of Drs. Ashmead and Fletcher. These resolutions were then read by the Secretary and adopted as read. They are appended to these minutes. A letter from Dr. L. O. Howard, concerning a request from Dr. Carlos E. Porter for separata and an offer to specialists of material for study, was read, and Mr. Webster made some explanations thereto. The Secretary read a communication from W. C. Wood suggesting action looking toward abolishing the tariff on insects. Moved and carried, "That it is the sense of this Society that the duty on insects is objectionable and should be abolished." The matter was referred to the Executive Committee with power. Adjournment until 1:00 P. M. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.