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THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC 



ENTOMOLOGISTS.* 



August 17, Morning Session. 



The third annual meeting was held in the Columbian University building, Washing- 

 ton, D.C. The meeting -.vas called to order at 9.45 a.m., President Fletcher, of Ottawa, 

 Ontario, in the chair. Thirty-eight persons were present, among whom were the following 

 members : — 



W. B. Alwood, Virginia ; W. H. Ashmead, District of Columbia ; G. F. Atkinson, 

 Alabama; M. H, Beck with, Delaware; Lawrence Bruner, Nebraska; A. J.Cook, 

 Michigan ; E. W. Doran, Maryland ; James Fletcher, Canada ; L. O. Howard, District 

 of Columbiix ; D. S. Kellicott, Ohio ; J. A. Lintner, New York ; C. L Marlatt, District 

 of Columbia ; Herbert Osborne, Iowa ; Theodore Pergrande, District of Columbia ; G. 

 H. Perkins, Vermont ; E. A. Poponoe, Kansas ; C. V. Riley, District of Columbia ; J. 

 B. Smith, New Jersey ; E. B. Southwick, New York ; J. M. Stedman, North Carolina ; 

 F. M. Webster, Ohio; H. E. Weed, Mississippi ; F. H. Chittenden, District of Columbia; 

 A. B. Cordley, District of Columbia ; G. H. Hudson, New York ; B. P. Mann, District 

 of Columbia ; M. E. Murtfeldt, Missouri. 



PRESIDENT'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 



The President, James Fletcher, Dominion Entomologist of Canada, then delivered 

 his annual address. 



Gentlemen, — It is not my intention to delay you upon this occasion either with a 

 lengthened or an elaborate address, but I shall endeavour for a short time to direct your 

 attention to some subjects for discussion which I trust may be found of interest and benefit 

 to all present. These subjects are all of a nature which it seems to me may more appro- 

 priately be brought before this Association than before any of the other entomological 

 organizations. 



I am of the opinion that our meetings,to be of the greatest use to economic entomolo- 

 gists, should be largely of an informal nature ; in fact, they should be meetings where 

 workers can meet students in the same Ime of research and exchange experiences. We 

 must all, to a large measure, go over the same ground and learn for ourselves the general 

 principles of the structure and habits of insects which affect so closely the choice and 

 application of the proper remedies to avert or mitigate their attacks upon crops. This 

 training, however, is essentially necessary in the same way that learning the alphabet is 

 necessary for one who wishes to read or speak accurately ; but it is beyond this point 

 that the advantages of our Association may be recognized. There is not, perhaps, any 

 single line of practical science, certainly not one approaching it in the importance of the 

 results attained, in which students have to work so much alone and cut off from compan- 

 ions of congenial tastes. Marvel at it as we may, we, who know the exquisite beauty 

 and sustaining charms of the insect world, cannot but acknowledge that entomology is not 

 a popular study, and although in this respect there is a gradual change taking place for 

 the better, still all the same it is with feelings akin to amusement and patronage that 

 the ordinary farmer allows himself to listen to arguments that there is after all some use 

 in studying the habits of insects. 



Probably most of us present have occasionally had the opportunity of addressing 

 farmers' institute meetings, and know well that although, after the meeting is over, there 



*The following report is taken from " Insect Life "—the official publication of the Entomological 

 Division of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 



