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your attention to the situation and to ask your earnest support of the 

 work of your representatives in the Council, which I can assure has been 

 of the highest order. 



I thank you very much for the opportunity to present the work of the 

 Division. (Applause) 



President Wilmon Newell: Our thanks are due Dr. McClung 

 for this very clear explanation of the work of the National Research 

 Council and our relationship to it. 



Another paper along similar lines is that by Mr. W. C. O'Kane, on 

 "Industrial Support for Scientific Work." 



rNDUSTRIAL SUPPORT FOR SCIENTIFIC WORK 



By W. C. O'Kane, Durham, N. H. 

 (Withdrawn for publication elsewhere) 

 Adjournment. 



Afternoon session, Wednesday, December 2Q, iQ20, 2.1 j p. m. 

 Vice-President Gossard in the Chair. 



Vice-President Gossard: We will now listen to the Presidential 

 Address, "On the Organization of Work in Economic Entomology," 

 by President Newell. 



ON THE ORGANIZATION OF WORK IN ECONOMIC 

 ENTOMOLOGY 



By Wilmon Newell. Gainesville, Florida 



Considering the relati\'ely short period during which our profession 

 has been adapted to important practical and economic ends its develop- 

 ment has been marvelous. It may be that because of this growth work 

 in economic entomology is not as thoroughly organized as in som_e of 

 the older j^rofessions or vocations. The time has undoubtedly arrived 

 when we must give thoughtful attention to so coordinating and organiz- 

 ing our activities, both as individuals and as groups of individuals, as to 

 place our profession on that high plane which its usefulness to society 

 justifies. 



Much is implied in the term "organization". In reality it covers 

 everything in the entomological field from teaching a student the prin- 

 cipal parts of the grasshopper's anatomy to the management of relatively 

 large and momentous undertakings, such as eradicating an injurious 

 insect or excluding foreign pests from our country. 



