8O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., '08 



Manager, Wilmon Newell, Baton Rouge, La., State Entomologist Lotisi- 

 ana. Advisory Board: L. O. Howard, Chief of Bureau of Entomology, 

 U. S. Dept. Agr. ; James Fletcher, Entomologist, Dominion of Canada; 

 H. T. Fernald, Professor of Entomology, Mass. Agr. College; S. A. 

 Forbes, State Entomologist, Illinois; H. A. Morgan, Director Term. 

 Agr. Experiment Station; Herbert Osborn, Professor of Zoology, Ohio 

 State University. 



At the twentieth annual meeting of the Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists held at Chicago, December 28, 29, 1907, a stock company com- 

 posed of members of that association was formed for publishing a Journal 

 of Economic Entomology, and arrangements were made for the imme- 

 diate issue of the publication. 



An agreement was entered into between this company and the associ- 

 ation whereby the Proceedings of the Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists are to be published exclusively in this journal. 



The Association of Economic Entomologists includes in its member- 

 ship practically all the official economic entomologists of the world, 

 nearly three hundred in number. Its proceedings have been published 

 as a bulletin of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, and have furnished the medium for publishing a large number 

 of papers giving the results of investigation in economic entomology, 

 many of which would not have found ready publication elsewhere. 

 These proceedings will now appear in the Journal of Economic Ento- 

 mology, making the first two numbers each year. The last four num- 

 bers will contain similar contributions, notes, news, reviews of more 

 important publications, etc. Ever since the untimely suspension of 

 Insect Life, over fifteen years ago, there has been no place for the publi- 

 cation of short notices or longer reports upon investigations and experi- 

 ments in economic entomology, save the bulletins and reports of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, the Agricultural Experiment Stations, 

 and the agricultural press, all of which have their distinctive fields and 

 limitations, precluding the publication of much worthy material. 



During the last ten years the science of economic entomology has ad- 

 vanced in a most phenomenal manner. The general public has had frt-- 

 quent occasion to acknowledge its debts to applied entomology, and the 

 number of workers and the quantity and quality of work have increased 

 in a manner far beyond expectation. The advent of the San Jose scale 

 throughout the eastern United States, the tremendous losses occasioned 

 by the Mexican cotton-boll weevil in Texas and Louisiana, the destructive 

 work of the gipsy and brown-tail moths in New England, as well as 

 many other important pests throughout America and the newly settled 

 countries of Australia and South Africa, have turned attention to the 

 work of the economic entomologist and its economic value as never 

 before. Even more striking has been the work in the United States and 

 South Africa upon the relation of ticks to the diseases of domestic ani- 

 mals and their control, and greatest of all have been the discoveries that 



