82 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF 

 ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS.* 



The Association met at 10 a.m. in Room 12 of the Packer Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., 

 August 14th, 1894. The following officers and members were present : 



President, L. O. Howard, Washington, D. C ; Vice-President, J. B. Smith, New 

 Brunswick, N.J. ; Acting Secretary, C. L. Marlatt, Washington, D.C. 



Messrs. William H. Ashmead, Wanhington, D.C. ; Geo. F. i^tkinson, Ithaca, N.Y. ; 

 Nathan Barks, Sea Cliff, N. Y. ; D. W. Coquillett, Washington, D.C ; Geo. C Davis, 

 Agricultural College. Mich. ; A. D. Hopkins, Morgantown, W.Va. ; Geo. H. Hudson, 

 Plattsburg, N.Y. ; J. A. Lintner, Albany, N.Y. ; V. H. Lowe, Jamaica, N.Y. ; F. W. 

 Raine, M>rgantown, W.Va. ; William Saunders, Ottawa, Canada ; E, B. Southwick, 

 Central Park, New York City ; F. A..Sirrine, Jamaica, N.Y. There were also in attend- 

 ance upon the meetings visitors and members of other scientific societies, the average 

 attendance being twenty-five p'^rsons. 



The meeting was called to order by the President, and in the absence of the Secre- 

 tary, Mr. Gillette, Mr. C. L. Marlatt was elected Secretary for the meeting. 



The President, Mr. Howard, then delivered his annual address as follows ; 



A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND PRESENT CONDITION OF OFFICIAL 



ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 



By L. O. Howard, Washington, D. C. 



When this Association was founded, in 1889, the name adopted was "The Associa- 

 tion of Official Economic Entomologists," and its objects a.^? outlined had evidently especial 

 reference to the work of those economic entomologists who hold official positions. At th« 

 first annual meeting, heid in Washington in November of the same year, Dr. Lintner, 

 with the evident idea cf broadening the scope of the Association, introduced an amend- 

 ment to drop the word " official " from the title, and this amendment was adopted at the 

 meetiniT at Champaign, 111., the following year. Notwithstanding this fact, the member- 

 ship of the Association is to-day laigely official ; out of 73 members 60 hold official posi- 

 tions, while the active work is »\\ done by those with whom economic entomology is a means 

 of subsistence. At the last meeting, held in Madison, Wis., in August, 1893, every 

 member registered belonged to the official class. 



The organization meeting at Toionto on the 30th of August, 1889, presented a strange 

 contrast to this It was held, as may not generally be known, upon a wooded knoll at a 

 landing calhd Scarborough Heights, overlooking the waters of Lake Ontario. The beach 

 below and the woods around wnre being scoured by industrious collectors of the old sec- 

 tion F, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Cook, 

 who presided, occupied a dignifitd position astride a fallen log. L»r. Smith, who acted as 

 secretary, had climbed with difficulty to the top of a tall sti mp and took his minutes on 

 his knee. Dr Bethune, Mr. Fletcher. Mr. E Baynes Reed, Mr. H. H. Lyman, Prof. C. 

 W Hargitt, Mr. E. P. Thompson, and the writer reclined with more or less grace, 

 according to their physical conformation, upon the ground or sat cross-legged upon con- 

 venient ant-bills This group, which made the Association "official " in name, was com- 

 posed of four official entomologists and five who were simply interested workers. 



*Tbrouph tlip kindness of Mr. L. O. Poward, Entr molopist of the Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D.C, and Mr C. L. ^'arlftt. Acting Sfcietaiy of the nieetii g, who prepared an atetjact of the 

 pr< ceedings for the ("anadian J f>t(niolo(rii>t, we are enabled to give the following account of this interesting 

 meeting as well as some of the papers in full. — Ed. 



