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is evident that the teacher should devote his time to college work while the investi- 

 gator should have all of his time to devote to regular station work and. as much as 

 possible to original research." 



Attention was called to the benefit that both technical and economic 

 entomology has derived from the work of different associations. The 

 history of the section on entomology was briefly reviewed and it was 

 stated that the prime cause of the waning interest in the work of this 

 section — 



"is possibly found in the fact that the same class of subjects is discussed atom- 

 section as is presented to the Association of Economic Entomologists which meets 

 at another time and place. Therefore entomologists who can not attend both prefer 

 to attend that of the Association of Economic Entomologists, where they meet a 

 greater number of entomological friends and workers and at the same time have an 

 opportunity to attend the sectional meetings of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and those of affiliated societies with which the economic 

 entomologists hold joint sessions. . . . When we consider the clearly specified busi- 

 ness of the Association of Economic Entomologists, its work and results, it would 

 seem that the only special line of subjects left to the entomologists who attend 

 the sessions of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations is that of methods in teaching technical and economic entomology and 

 of conducting investigations which have a direct bearing upon the work of the 

 teacher and his students. It would appear, therefore, that if this Association is to 

 contribute in the future to the material advancement of economic and technical 

 entomology in the college and station it might behest accomplished through the 

 work of committees appointed to determine and report upon methods of teaching 

 entomology in the various agricultural colleges of the world." 



The report of the committee on indexing agricultural literature was 

 read by A. 0. True, of this Department. This report recommended the 

 following plan for indexing agricultural literature: 



"Scope. — The works indexed should comprise such works in the English language 

 as treat specifically of agricultural subjects, or of the direct application of the 

 sciences to agriculture. 



•• Selection of books. — There should be carefully selected, witli t lie assistance of com- 

 petent experts, a list of, say, 1,000 books of the character above noted. These should 

 be fully catalogued, giving information as to t lie publisher and cost, and, in fact, 

 every detail which would make the catalogue useful, with notes where necessary. 

 This catalogue should be published and in sufficient number to allow of its being 

 quite widely distributed. The books should be collected and the cataloguing done 

 by the Library of the Department of Agriculture, since a large proportion of the 

 books are already on the shelves of the Library, and the facilities for obtaining 

 information along this line are the best. 



•• Indexing. — The indexing should be done, one division of agriculture at a lime, by 

 getting together the books on this subject and carefully going over them in detail. 

 The entries should be made on slips of paper of uniform size and arranged under 

 some carefully planned system. When the literature of one subject is exhausted, 

 these slips can be edited and a new subject undertaken. When the whole ground is 

 covered the slips should be carefully edited and a fair copy made forthe printer. . . . 



'"Your committee respectfully submits the following resolution and urges its 

 adoption at this convention: 



"Resolved, That this Association cordially indorses the plan for the preparation of 

 an index of agricultural literature by the l r . S. Department of Agriculture as set 

 forth in the report of the committee on indexing agricultural literature, and the 



