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necessary to enact such a law at a special session. We are therefore 

 without resources so far as the state of Alabama is concerned. 



The Bureau of Entomology and the Federal Horticultural Board 

 have been so impressed with the importance of the problem that a 

 supplemental item, amounting to $150,000, has been added to the 

 Agricultural Appropriation Bill to meet the emergency. This is to be 

 expended for control, quarantine, and experimental work. I hope 

 the members of this association will use all the influence possible in this 

 emergency and I believe it will be helpful if many of the members will 

 take this matter up favorably with Congressmen who are on the agri- 

 cultural committee and urge them to support this item. 



Mr. Z. p. Metcalf presented a statement as a member of the 

 committee on the preservation of natural resources of the Ecological 

 Society of America, covering the preservation of wild life, and stated 

 that it was the belief of the committee that all organizations interested 

 in natural history should support this committee. 



The matter was referred to the committee on resolutions for later 

 report. 



On Thursday morning at 11 a. m., the report of the committee on 

 policy was taken up for consideration. Each recommendation was read 

 separately and after a nimiber of amendments had been made, the report 

 was adopted as follows : 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON POLICY 

 Organization 



The Committee on Policy organized for the year 1920 with the following sub- 

 committees : 



Education, Dr. Osborn, chairman, Dr. Ball and Mr. Burgess. 

 Insect Control, Dr. Felt, chairman, Mr. Sanders and Prof. O'Kane. 

 Organization, Mr. Sanders, chairman, Prof. O'Kane, and Mr. Newell. 

 Research, Dr. Ball, chairman, Mr. Parrott and Dr. Osborn. 

 Publications, Mr. Burgess, chairman. Dr. Felt and Mr. Pierce. 



Cooperation with Eiropeax Entomologists 



Early in the year the committee^ acting with the officers of the Association, pro- 

 posed to Dr. L. O. Howard that he approach European entomologists on the occasion 

 of his visit to Europe in the early summer, to ascertain the possibilities in the way 

 of forming, in Europe, an Association of Economic Entomologists along the same 

 lines as our Association in this country. This commission was accepted by Dr. 

 Howard. In conference with European entomologists, however, he found that condi- 

 tions were not favorable at the present time for carrying out the project, partly 

 because of the after-effects of the war, partly bscause of the lack of a common 

 language and for other reasons. 



