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PHILADELPHIA, PA., SEPTEMBER, 1900. 



The annual meeting of the Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists was held at Columbia University, New York, on 

 June 22d and 23d. Among those present were C. P. Gillette, 

 L. O. Howard, F. M. Webster, James Fletcher, H. T. Fernald, 

 A. D. Hopkins, W. G. Johnson, R. S. Clifton, A. F. Burgess, 

 C. P. Lounsbury, E. B. Southwick, C. M. Weed, Trevor Kin- 

 caid, E. P. Felt, A. H. Kirkland, W. M. Scott and A. L- 

 Quaintance. The papers read were interesting and valuable, 

 and the meeting was characterized by scientific enthusiasm and 

 zeal for the w r ork. The atmosphere that pervaded the meeting 

 was for progress, and each man seemed anxious to further the 

 science of economic entomology. The different States repre- 

 sented get a valuable return for the services of these men, who 

 appeared to be interested in their studies for 'the science and 

 for the benefit of their respective communities. How different 

 is it here in Philadelphia and in the great State of Pennsylvania 

 where all is politics and jobbery. The city and State expend 

 considerable sums of money and get practically no return. The 

 official entomologists of the other States mentioned injury by 

 insects which represented hundreds of thousands of dollars in 

 money value. We never hear anything of injurious insects in 

 this State, and the only natural inference is that there are no 

 injurious insects here. The citizens of the State of Pennsyl- 

 vania do, however, get some information in regard to injurious 

 insects, but in a beggarly way, as the State pays nothing for 

 this service. These sources of information are the American 

 Entomological Society and the State entomologists of Ohio 

 and New Jersey respectively. Pennsylvania is in the slough 

 of political darkness ; will she ever awaken ? 



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