32 JOURN^VL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 14 



PART II. ADDRESSES, PAPERS, AND DISCUSSIONS 



Morning Session, Wednesday, December 2Q, iq20 



After the routine business of the opening session had been transacted. 

 President Newell introduced Dr. C. E. McClung, chairman of the Divis- 

 ion of Biology and Agriculture of the National Research Council, who 

 spoke as follows: 



It is a great pleasure to meet with you and to discuss briefly some of the 

 problems which confront the Council. I should like, in the first i^lace, 

 to acknowledge the indebtedness of our Division and of our Executive 

 Committee to the efficient services of your respresentative, my old friend. 

 Dr. Parrott. As he has told you in his report, he has attended all of our 

 meetings and has contributed very largely to the discussions that have 

 been held. 



This morning I should like very briefly to indicate to you the nature 

 of the Council and some of its problems. It is especially important that 

 you understand what this organization is. There is much misappre- 

 hension, some of it natural, some of it, I am sorry to say, cultivated. 

 It is particularly important that you know that this organization is 

 your own. It is not something which exists outside of the national 

 scientific societies; it is a creature of those societies, and it represents 

 you as an organization. The unit on which the Council is established 

 is a national scientific society. It is not an organization to impose 

 upon any individual or group of individuals any policy or method or 

 point of view. It is in effect, as Dr. Parrott has told you, a congress of 

 the scientists of the country, an organization through which they may 

 express their views, through which they may operate in the execution 

 of their projects, and in no sense is it designed to impose any plan or 

 any point of view upon the scientists of the country. 



1 want to be especially emphatic about that because }'ou will be told 

 by those who have not looked into the matter that there is some effort 

 on the part of certain persons, undesignated, to attempt the control of 

 the scientific life of the country. In the nature of the organization that 

 is quite impossible. It was designed especially to prevent any such 

 thing as the development of a group that might wish to do such a thing 

 as that, because the members are elected for short periods of time and 

 the officers for a year. 



I happen to be in Washington this year, and Dr. Jones of Wisconsin 

 will be there next year, and somebody else will follow him as Chairman 

 of our Division. The organization is plastic and moves rapidly, and 

 there is nothing in the nature of it which would make possible a coercive 

 body. On the other hand, it does offer the scientists of the country a 



