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Voted that the report be accepted, and the recommendations adopted. 

 It is understood that this committee should continue as a permanent 

 committee until the work on common names of insects is completed. 



President Wilmon Newell: The report of the committee on Index 

 of Economic Entomology will be given by Mr. E. P. Felt. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE PUBLICATION OF THE INDEX 

 OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



Your Committee would report the completion early in the year of the manuscript 

 for the years 1915 to 1919 inclusive. It would state that it has been turned over to 

 the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Entomology in accordance with 

 the action of the last annual meeting. 



The committee would also voice its hearty approval of the liberal policy pursued 

 by Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomolog}% in authorizing the prepara- 

 tion of this index. 



This Committee further wishes to place on record its grateful appreciation of the 

 earnest and accurate \\ork of Aliss Mabel Colcord.in charge of the project, and her 

 associates. They have rendered invaluable services to economic entomologists not 

 only of this country but of the world. It is difficult for one unfamiliar with work 

 of this character to appreciate the amount of labor involved and it is therefore 

 recommended that a special vote of thanks be given Miss Colcord and those who 

 assisted in preparing the index as a slight recognition of their part in a laborious and 

 usually somewhat thankless task. 



It should be noted that the indebtedness incurred in the publication of the Bank's 

 Index has been liquidated and a similar outcome is anticipated in the case of the 

 Colcord Index. 



Extended indices to the voluminous and scattered records of economic entomology 

 are of immense service to all economic workers. Although the publication of the 

 Colcord index was more expensive than was anticipated, the Committee believes 

 that such aids are worth all that they cost and in spite of abnormally high prices now 

 current, it is our opinion that future probabilities should be taken into account and 

 with these in view, it is recommended that the Committee be continued and directed 

 to carefully study the situation in order to ascertain possibilities for more frequent 

 publication of such indices, either by this Association or through some other agency. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. P. Felt 

 A. F. Burgess 

 W. C. O'Kane 

 W. E. Bkitton 

 W. E. Hinds 



Committee 



Voted that the report of the committee be adopted. 



President Wil.mon Newell: I will appoint the following commit- 

 tees: 



Auditing committee: W. R. Walton, J. W. McColloch. 



