Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



mittee continued. The President's address by E. Dwight San- 

 derson, was "The Work of the American Association of Eco- 

 nomic Entomologists." Prof. T. S. Headlee presented a brief 

 report on the work now being prosecuted by some economic 

 entomologists in the State universities, agricultural colleges 

 and experiment stations of the United States, listing the names 

 of 101 projects, and the investigator undertaking each one. 

 with his address. 



The adoption of a preamble and resolution that, "Whereas, 

 there now exists a great lack of properly trained men for the 

 work in economic entomology in the country at large, be it 

 Resolved, by the Association that universities and agricultural 

 colleges within whose province it naturally falls to supply this 

 need, be urged to provide adequate facilities for the thor- 

 ough training of capable men for the profession of economic 

 entomology." 



A symposium on the present methods of teaching entomol- 

 ogy, is represented by four papers by Profs. J. H. Comstock, 

 H. T. Fernald, Herbert Osborn and Lawrence Bruner respec- 

 tivelv, followed by an extended discussion. 



The same number of the Journal of Economic Entomology 

 contains the Proceedings of the ninth annual meeting of the 

 American Association of Official Horticultural Inspectors, in- 

 cluding an extended paper by C. L. Marlatt on the need of a 

 national control of imported nursery stock, and shorter ones 

 by Dr. L. O. Howard, G. G. Atwood and F. Windle. 



OBITUARY 



JAMES WILLIAM TUTT, English Lepidopterist, and Editor 

 of the Entomologists' Record and Journal of Variation (Lon- 

 don), from 1890 to IQIO, died January 10, 1911, at Rayleigh 

 Villa, Westcombe Hill. From a sympathetic notice of his life 

 by Dr. T. A. Chapman, in the Entomologist for February, 

 1911, we learn that he was born at Strood, Kent, April 26, 

 1858. Most of his mature years were spent as a schoolmaster 



