February, '21] business proceedings 9 



Association's Committee on Policy, with one member at large. To fill the latter 

 position your President, with approval of the Executive Committee, appointed Dr. 

 A. L. Quaintance of the Bureau of Entomolog}\ 



Crop Protection Institute 

 At a conference of insecticide manufacturers, plant pathologists and entomologists, 

 arranged for by the National Research Council and held at Rochester, New York, 

 June 23, our Association was represented by Messrs. W. C. O'Kane, P. J. Parrott, 

 E. P. Felt and J. G. Sanders. At this conference preliminary plans were made for 

 the formation of the "Crop Protection Institute". Organization of the Institute 

 was perfected at a meeting held in Washington September 28th, attended by the 

 President and several members of our Committee on Policy, as well as other members 

 of our association, representatives of the American Phytopathological Society and 

 of the manufacturers of insecticides and spraying machinery. The constitution 

 adopted by the Plant Protection Institute provided for a board of trustees composed 

 of 13 members, consisting of three representatives from the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists, three from the American Phytopathological Society, two 

 from the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, one from the National Research 

 Council, three from the Manufacturers of Insecticides and Fungicides and one from 

 the Manufacturers of Allied Lines. As representatives of our Association, to serve 

 in this capacity until the next annual meeting, your President appointed Messrs. 

 P. J. Parrott, J. G. Sanders and W. C. O'Kane. These appointments were approved 

 by the Executive Committee. 



Regional Branches 



The Executive Committee has given careful thought to the question of encourag- 

 ing the establishment of regional branches of our Association. On this question, 

 which is essentially one of policy, the members of the Committee have held somewhat 

 diverse opinions and as it is evidently a matter of keen interest to the entire member- 

 ship the Executive Committee has taken no action on it. Further reference to this 

 question will doubtless be contained in the report of the Committee on Policy. 



Extension 



On February 18th your President, at the suggestion of the Subcommittee on 

 Organization and with the approval of the Executive Committee, appointed Dr. L. O. 

 Howard as representative of our Association to investigate the feasibility of encourag- 

 ing the formation of an association of economic entomologists in Europe, with a 

 possible view to the ultimate organization of an international association. Dr. 

 Howard discharged in a highly satisfactory manner the task entrusted to him and 

 has submitted a rather full report on this question to the Committeee on Policy. 



Index to Economic Entomology 

 In October the Executive Committee gave its approval to the borrowing of $1,500 

 for the purpose of financing the new Index to Economic Entomology, it appearing 

 from the information at hand that this amount would easily be repaid by proceeds 

 from the sale of the index but that the actual publication could not be handled with- 

 out this amount of actual cash being available. 



Identificatio.n Buttons at Annu.\l Meetings 

 At our last annual meeting the Association voted to dispense with the use of num- 

 bered identification buttons at our annual meetings. It is the opinion of your 



