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tive parasites, insects, fungi or other things. It would be a question to 

 decide whether it is more desirable to keep that area or to get rid of that 

 particular group of destructive organisms. That would be difficult 

 unless you had, as you have in the Council, a congress of scientists 

 already established to consider these matters for you. Always it should 

 be the case that if these are of great importance they come back to the 

 different societies for final action as they have in the case of this Crop 

 Protection Institute. That should be an invariable practise of the 

 Council, because as it represents the societies it ought to take every 

 precaution to see that that representation of sentiment is as full and as 

 exact as can be obtained. 



I should like very briefly to speak of several connections which you 

 might as entomologist set up with projects in process of organization and 

 which would be of much possible interest to you. One has also been 

 briefly referred to here — that of the relation between entomology and 

 forestry. We have a very active and energetic forestry committee 

 which has now in progress an extensive investigation in the Southern 

 States upon the reforestation of that region and upon methods of sylvi- 

 culture. I should just like to speak of this for a moment to indicate 

 to 3'ou how connections are established and projects put under way. 

 This committee represents the American Forestry Association, and 

 presented to that Society certain projects which it thought of greatest 

 significance. Two of them were the ones which I have mentioned. 

 In order to be certain that the Council should not undertake something 

 for which provision was already made, after these projects had been 

 properly approved, I went to the Chief Forester and explained the 

 situation to him, asked him if this work duplicated the work of the 

 Forest Service and if not did he consider it a desirable thing to under- 

 take. It was at once approved by the Chief Forester, and then Dr. 

 Howe, Chairman of the Research Extension Division of the Council, 

 who assisted you in the organization of this Crop Protection Institute, 

 addressed the Southern Pine Growers' Association and received from 

 them a grant of $10,000 for the prosecution of this project. 



The Chairman of the Committee told me the other da}' that already 

 from the Forest Service and from the state services contributions equiva- 

 lent in amount to what the Southern Pine Growers had contributed had 

 been received. 



This Committee on Forestry, it seems to me, could very properly be 

 put in relation to your Committee of Entomology to determine what 

 best could be done in the matter of forest entomology, if there should 

 be things for which you do not already have provision, as I judge to be 

 the case from what has already been suggested. 



