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reported that the Council proposed to set up a Committee on Entomology within the 

 Division of Biolog>^ and Agriculture. In the case of the American Phytopathologi- 

 cal Society, the Council had already designated the Advisory Board of the American 

 Phytopathological Society as a Committee on Plant Pathology of the Council. 

 It was voted to instruct Mr. Parrott to suggest to the Council that the Committee 

 on Policy, with one member added, be designated as the Committee on Entomology 

 of the Council. 



It was voted further to instruct Mr. Parrott to recommend to the Council that it 

 suggest to manufacturers of insecticides, fungicides and allied products that an organi- 

 zation be effected whereby, through joint action, funds might be made available for 

 suitable projects in entomology and in plant patholog\\ 



June 23, four members of the Committee on Policy, Messrs. Parrott, Felt, Sanders, 

 and O'Kane took part in a conference in Rochester, N. Y., at which preliminary 

 plans were adopted for an organization of entomologists, plant pathologists and the 

 manufacturers of insecticides, fungicides and allied products, this organization to 

 be brought about under the auspices of the National Research Council, and to be 

 known as the Plant Protection Institute. At this conference a preliminary draft of 

 a constitution and by-laws was drawn up and the general plan of the proposed 

 Institute was adopted, subject to revision and ratification at a later meeting. 



A further meeting was called at Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 28. The Committee 

 on Policy met the preceding evening, with the following members present: Messrs. 

 Newell, Bail, Sanders, Parrott and O'Kane. By invitation Dr. Quaintance, also, 

 was present, as the additional member of our Association designated to serve on the 

 Committee on Entomology of the National Research Council. The proposed plan 

 of work of the Plant Protection Institute was studied in detail and certain changes 

 were agreed on to be proposed the following day. 



The following day a number of entomologists and plant pathologists met with a 

 group of manufacturers in the offices of the National Research Council and com- 

 pleted organization of the Crop Protection Institute. In the organization as finally 

 adopted control of the Institute is exclusively in a board of trustees of thirteen 

 members, nine of whom are scientists who must be without commercial affiliations. 

 Three of the nine are entomologists, three are plant pathologists, two are agricultural 

 chemists and one is designated by the National Research Council. The industrial 

 members choose four trustees, three of whom represent the manufacturers of insecti- 

 cides and fungicides, and one represents the manufacturers of allied products. A 

 temporary selection of the entomological members was made by the executive com- 

 mittee of the Association, pending action by the Association at the annual meeting 

 at Chicago. 



In assisting thus in the organization of the Crop Protection Institute the members 

 of the Committee on Policy have not sought to bind the Association, as such, to any 

 further measure of cooperation than appeared to be implied in the vote of the 

 Association in the St. Louis meeting, in which the Committee was instructed to 

 proceeed in the cooperative measures proposed by the National Research Council. 

 It has appeared to the Committee clearly desirable to take advantage of the 

 opportunity for helping to organize the proposed Institute along lines giving prop- 

 er recognition to the profession of entomolog>^ and at the same time to help to shape 

 the activities of the Institute in such fashion as to avoid conflict with existing agencies 

 or duplication of existing lines of effort. 



At the basis of the plan of organization of the Crop Protection Institute is a clear 

 recognition of the authority, scope and influence of the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists in all activities of the Institute that relate to entomolog>'. 



