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the Association. The fourth part is now in course of preparation. 

 A glance at the third part, with its 441 double-column pages simply 

 listing the topics treated during the period of five years, gives one 

 a good idea of the really immense amount of work in economic ento- 

 mology done in North America during that period. 



While it is true that the Review of Applied Entomology, published 

 by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology in London and which was 

 started in 1913, covers American entomological publications as well 

 as those of the rest of the world, the American Index of the Asso- 

 ciation, containing only indexed titles, is much more complete for 

 North America and perhaps more handy for speedy reference. 



At the present time, just as I am completing this volume, the Asso- 

 ciation so far exceeds our original anticipations in every respect 

 that it seems marvelous. The Journal for February, 1930, covers over 

 three hundred pages and is illustrated. The membership list totals 

 1 150, of which 51 are foreign members. This especial number in- 

 cludes the proceedings of the annual meeting held December 30, 

 1929, to January i, 1930, at Des Moines, Iowa, and it also includes 

 the proceedings of the meeting of the Southern Branch of the Asso- 

 ciation held in New York City November 21 and 22, 1929. I was unable 

 to attend the Des Moines meeting (it was the first one I have missed 

 since the organization of the Association), but I was present at the 

 meeting of the Eastern Branch in New York. The program for the 

 two days at this meeting was crowded with short papers covering a 

 large part of the field of economic entomology and giving accounts 

 of current investigations or of those just closed up for the year. So 

 numerous were the papers that there was almost no time for discus- 

 sion. I could not help contrgisting this meeting with that of the 

 whole Association held 35 years before, just across the river in 

 Brooklyn (August, 1894). That was the year when I had the honor 

 of being President. Then there were 17 members in attendance and 

 eight or ten non-members. And that, mind you, was the annual 

 meeting of the whole Association, while this New York meeting was 

 only one of several geographical sections. 



It should be stated that from the very beginning Canadians have 

 shared with the workers of the United States in the whole con- 

 duct of the organization. They have held prominent offices. James 

 Fletcher, C. Gordon Hewitt and Arthur Gibson have acted as Presi- 

 dent. Other countries have been recognized from the start, and their 

 prominent workers in economic entomology have been made members 

 of the Association. 



