WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY HOWARD III 



on and we realized more and more, not only the importance of our 

 vocation and its multitudinous aspects and contacts, but also there 

 began to dawn upon us the disturbing thought that conditions in a 

 Ijroad way were growing worse instead of better. 



For the first 19 years after the founding, the Proceedings of the 

 annual meetings of the Association were published either in Insect 

 Life or in the bulletins of the entomological service of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. By 1907, however, the Associa- 

 tion had grown so large and so strong that it began the publication of 

 the Journal of Economic Entomology. The 20th annual meeting in 

 December of that year had an average attendance of 90 at its several 

 sessions, and the list of members showed 257 names. The Journal 

 showed its merit at the start. The opening number covered 80 pages. 

 At the present time (April, 1928) it has passed through 20 volumes, 

 and the first number of Volume 21 covers 248 pages; and the mem- 

 bers of the Association as listed in this number reach nearly 1,000. 



Not only has the Association developed in numbers and in publi- 

 cations, but it has broadened out in its organization. It now has its 

 Pacific Coast Branch, its Cotton States Branch and its Eastern States 

 Branch. The main Association has always held its meetings at the 

 time and place of the annual meetings of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, and therefore changed the time of 

 its meetings, with the old Association, from August to the week that 

 includes January ist, now known generally as " Convocation Week." 

 It may be stated incidentally that the term " Convocation Week " has 

 been adopted by the leading universities and hence incorporated in 

 the leading American dictionaries to mean a week during which the 

 learned societies hold their meetings. University schedules have been 

 altered so that the attendance of teachers on these meetings during 

 this week will cause no interference with their college duties. 



For the last 26 years, therefore, the main Association has met 

 during Convocation Week ; but it seemed desirable for the branches 

 to meet during the growing season, and hence there have been oppor- 

 tunities for members of the Association to come together during the 

 summer time, and therefore for members on the Pacific Coast and in 

 the far South to keep in closer touch with the Association and its 

 work than if they were prevented by long distance from frequent 

 attendance at the meetings of the main Association. There are now 

 three such regional branches. 



Moreover, the Association has kept itself well up to date by means 

 of standing committees which have exercised a constant oversight 



