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The active membership of the Association now numbers eighty-six, 

 and includes practically all the leading workers in economic entomology 

 in the United States and Canada. The foreign membership numbers 

 twenty-nine, and comprises the leading official economic entomologists of 

 the world. 



A number of resolutions were passed ; among others, the following : 

 Resolutions (i) relating to the death of Dr. C. V. Riley, the originator 

 and first president of the Association ; (2) urging the publication by the 

  U.S. Department of Agriculture of a general index to the seven volumes 

 of Insect Life ; and (3) recognizing the importance of the work being 

 done by the State of Massachusetts in the control of the gypsy moth, 

 urging the continuance by the State of work in this direction and express- 

 ing the greatest confidence in the officers now charged with it. 



The annual address of the President, Mr. C. R. Fernald, Professor of 

 Entomology, Massachusetts State Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass., 

 was entitled " The Evolution of Economic Entomology," and was devoted 

 to a historical resume of the progress in the practical control of insects 

 from the earliest times to the present. The following papers were read 

 and discussed : — 



" Some Temperature Eff'ects on Household Insects." 



" On the Futility of Trunk and Crown Washes for Elm Leaf Beetle." 



" Remarks on Steam Spraying Machines." 

 By Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of Division of Entomology, U.S. Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 



"Three Years' Study of an Outbreak af the Chinch Bug in Ohio." 



" Insects of the Year in Ohio." 

 By Prof F. M. Webster, Entomologist to the Ohio Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, Wooster, Ohio. 



" A New Insecticide." 

 By A. H. Kirkland, Assistant to the Gypsy Moth Committee, Maiden, 

 Mass. 



" Comparative Tests with New and Old Arsenicals on Foliage and 

 with Larvae." 



" Insecticide Soaps." 

 By C. L. Marlatt, First Assistant, Division df Entomology, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 



" Enemies of the San Jose Scale in California." 

 By Dr. J. B. Smith, Entomologist to the New Jersey Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, New Brunswick, N.J. 



