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The following officers were elected lor the eusuiug year: President, W. E. 

 r.rittou : 1st vice-president, E. D. Ball; 2d vice-president, H. E. Summers; 

 secretary, A. F. Burgess. The meeting was the largest yet held, there being an 

 average attendance of over 100 each day. 



Eiitoinoloffical Socictu of America. — This was the third anutial meeting of 

 this society, W. M. Wheeler presiding. Of special interest to the economic 

 entomologists were the accounts and investigations of Toxopiera graminiim and 

 its parasites, by F. M. Webster, habits of seed infesting Chalcis-flies, by C. R. 

 Crosby, recording and mapping entomological fauna of the State, by Franklin 

 Sherman, Jr., and notes on the host relations of ticks, by W. A. Hooker. 



Henry Skinner was elected president, Herbert Osboru and A. D. Hopkins 

 vice-presidents, and J. C. Bradley secretary and treasurer for the coming year. 



American Association of IJorticultural Insi)cctors. — The seventh annual meet- 

 ing was held December 29-30. Among the questions of interest taken ttp and 

 discussed were those of a National importation inspection law, the desirability of 

 a uniform inspection law for the several States, and methods of certification and 

 of disinfection of nursery stoclv, and methods for preventing the dissemination 

 of the strawberry root-louse, Argentine ant, peach yellows, and crown gall, 

 F. L. Washburn, of the Minnesota Station, was elected president and T. B. 

 Symons, of the Maryland Station, secretary for the coming year. 



Agricultural Economics at the American Economic Association.— The meeting of 

 this association was held at Atlantic City, X. J., December 28-31, 1908. One 

 of the sessions was demoted to agriculture, the following papers being presented : 

 Economic Geography and Agricultural Economics, by E. V. Robinson, Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota ; Cooperative Marketing of Agricultural Products, by 

 Dr, J. L. Coulter, University of Minnesota ; The Economic Limitations of 

 Cooperation in the Marketing of Agricultural Products, by J. B. INIorman of 

 this Office; and The Relation of Speculation to the Marketing of xVgricultural 

 Products, by H. C. Emery, Yale University. A discussion, led by T. N. Carver 

 of Harvard University, followed the papers, which will be published in the 

 proceedings of the association during the year, 



American Home Economics Association. — Following a meeting of the Teachers' 

 Section of the Lake Placid Conference for Home Economics, held in Washing- 

 ton on December 31, the American Home Economics Association was organized, 

 with its aim, as expressed by the constitution adopted, the furtherance of the 

 study and consideration of home problems and the uniting for more effective 

 work of all those interested therein. The following officers were elected : 

 President, Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, of the ]Massachusetts Institute of Technology : 

 vice-presidents. Miss Isabel Bevier, of the University of Illinois, C. F. Lang- 

 worthy, of this Office, and Miss Mary L'ri Watson, of the Ontario Agricultural 

 College; secretary-treasurer, Benj, R. Andrews, of Teachers' College, New York. 



The first public meeting of the association was held at George Washington 

 University, on the morning of January 2, at which addresses were made 

 by several speakers. Elmer E. Brown, U, S. Commissioner of Education, 

 pointed out the important work which the association might do by showing 

 home-makers and school children throughout the country how the technical, 

 scientific knowledge for which it stands may be practically applied to increase 

 their physical and moral, as well as their intellectual, welfare. He was fol- 

 lowed by A. C. True, of this Office, who spoke of the timeliness of the for- 

 mation of the association at a period when the interest in home science was 

 increasing so rapidly and when the need was being felt for some regenerative 

 influence in American home life. He suggested as three appropriate lines of 



