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Vice-President Gossard: After having listened to this very excel- 

 lent address from one of the most capable of our members and the head 

 of a large organization, I am sure you will wish to discuss the matter. 



Mr. W. C. O'Kane: Every one of us here is sitting quietly waiting 

 for the other man to speak first. I would like to do this, too, but I 

 cannot let this opjDortunit}' go by without expressing my personal appre- 

 ciation of President Newell's address. Not every man has the courage 

 of his convictions, and not everv man has convictions that are worth 

 putting courage into. He has both. When you listen to an address 

 of this kind you must have the same sort of feelings that I have, that the 

 whole future development of economic entomology is so enormous 

 that you wonder how we are going to undertake it. I never have heard 

 an address in this association that had as much suggestive and con- 

 structive work in it. I only wish that it were possible for Mr. Newell 

 to go ahead and develop into concrete plans many of the things he has 

 suggested in his address. 



Vice-President Gossard: I think most of us have the feeling that 

 President Newell is so Experienced along these lines of executive work 

 that we cannot add very much. In fact, so much of his position is 

 ftmdamentally sotmd and is sort of axiomatic, that no one feels like 

 adding to it or subtracting from it. 



President Wii.mon Newell: We will now proceed to the program. 

 Subject to the approval of the association, the practise concerning papers 

 will be as follows: 



The time limit given to each paper on the program will not be ex- 

 tended, except by vote of the association. If the author is not present 

 when a paper is called, the paper will be deferred to the end of that 

 session, and if time permits, all such deferred papers will be called in 

 order, but they will not be caiTied over to the beginning of the next 

 regular session. Unless the association directs otherwise, papers sent 

 by absent memljers will be read by title only. 



First paper is entitled "A W)luntecr Pest Reporting Service," by S. B. 

 Fracker, Madison, Wis. 



A VOLUNTEER PEST REPORTING SERVICE 



B}' S. B. Fracker, Madison, Wis. 



One of the problems of every entomologist whose field of work includes 

 assistance in the control of insect epidemics is that of securing adequate 

 information in time to be of value. This is particularly true in the case 

 of the less conspicuous insects, although even when outbreaks are so 



