230 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



THE NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF 



ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS, DETROIT, MICH., 



AUGUST I2TH AND 13TH, 1897. 



The Association met in Room 212, Central High School Building, 

 immediately following the adjournment of Section F. Thirteen active- 

 members were present, together with many visitors, prominent among the 

 latter being Dr. C. A. Dohrn, Prof. E. B. Poulton, Dr. C. P. Hart, Dr. C. 

 S. Minot, and Dr. C. W. Stiles. The Association was called to order by 

 the President, and in the absence of Secretary Marlatt a secretary /r^ tern. 

 was chosen. The address of the retiring president, Prof. F. M. Webster, 

 treated of "The Present and Future of Applied Economic Entomology 

 in the United States," and contained, among other very interesting features, 

 an admirable tribute to the value of the systematist and a somewhat caustic 

 criticism of the " species maker," lielpful suggestions for the exi)eriment 

 station worker, and a very frank discussion of the unfortunate restills 

 which attend the attempts sometimes made to combine politics and 

 science. The following were elected to active membership : 

 G. B. King, Lawrence, Mass. 

 Gerald McCarthy, Raleigh, N. C 

 E. P. Felt, Albany, N. Y, 

 A. F. Burgess, Maiden, Mass. 

 W. B. Barrows, Agricultural College, Mich. 

 R. H. Pettit, Agricultural College, Mich. 

 W. S. Blatchley, Indianapolis, Ind. 



The following were elected foreign members : 



Claude Fuller and Richard Helm, both of Perth, West Australia. 



These additions increase the numbers of this Association to ninety- 

 three active and thirty-one foreign members. 



FoUov/ing the election of members, Dr. L. O. Howard presented 

 "Additional Notes on the Parasites of Orgyia leucostigma." This paper 

 gave the results of the rearing of a large number of primary and secondary 

 parasites, and contained a general discussion of the different phases of 

 insect parasitisms. 



" Temperature Effects as Affecting Received Ideas Concerning the 

 Hibernation of Insects," by the same author, showed that a sudden 

 alternation between low and high temperatures was remarkably fatal to 

 the larvae of clothes moths, Buffalo carpet beetles, and other insects of 

 a,llied habits. 



