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V. L. Kellogg, Stanford University. "Distribution and Species form- 

 ing among Ectoparasites." Discusses the distribution, both geographi- 

 cal and host, of all the known species of Mallophaga. 



The report of the Executive Committee was then read by 

 sections and each section immediately acted on. 



Invitations to hold the Third Congress in Frankfort-on-the 

 Main and in Vienna were acknowledged, and letters from the 

 American Association of Economic Entomologists and the 

 Entomological Society of America, urges that the next session 

 be held in the United States, were read. After discussion, the 

 question was put to the whole Congress as to whether the 

 next meeting should be in Europe or in America. A large 

 majority, having voted in favor of the former, the Executive 

 Committee then recommended Vienna as the place, and Dr. 

 Anton Handl.irsch as President of the Third Congress in 1915, 

 and this was approved by the Congress without objection. 



All of the following recommendations of the Executive 

 Committee were unanimously adopted by the Congress. 



As the result of action taken by the Economic and Patho- 

 logic Section, the formation of an International Commission 

 on the prevention of importation of injurious insects from one 

 country to another was recommended to the International In- 

 stitute of Agriculture at Rome. 



Messrs. Nathan Banks and Stephen A. Forbes, of the United 

 States, J. F. Tristan, of Costa Rica, and E. M. Walker, of 

 Canada, were added to the New World members of the Per- 

 manent Committee on International Entomological Congresses. 



Messrs. E. T. Cresson, of Philadelphia, P. R. Uhler, of Bal- 

 timore, and Frey-Gessner, of Geneva, were named to fill the 

 vacancies created by the decease of honorary members since 

 the First Congress of 1910. 



An International Committee on Entomological Nomencla- 

 ture was named, consisting of Messrs. N. Banks (U. S. A.), 

 C. J. Gahan (England), K. Kertesz (Hungary), F. Ris (Swit- 

 zerland), S. Schenkling (Germany), H. Schouteden (Bel- 

 gium), Y. Sjostedt (Sweden), and K. Jordan (England), 

 with power to add to their number. This International Com- 

 mittee is to enter into negotiations with the entomological so- 



