JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



OCTOBER, 1921 



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The American Association of Economic Entomolpgists was organized 

 at Toronto, Can, August 29, 1889 by James Fletcher, A. J. Cook, John 

 B. Smith, Charles J. S. Bethune, L. 0. Howard, Clarence M. Weed, E. 

 Baynes Reed, H. Garman and C. W. Hargitt, although the first annual 

 meeting was held at Washington, D. C, November 12th. The facts 

 regarding the organization of the Association appear to have been largely 

 overlooked and attention is called to them at this time because the com- 

 ing meeting at Toronto is the first gathering of official Entomologists of 

 the United States and Canada as an organization in Canadian territory 

 since that historic time and moreover it happens that the sessions will 

 be held in the same city and in conjunction with two other well known, 

 nation wide organizations, the Entomological Society of Ontario, which 

 celebrated its jubilee in 1913 and the Entomological Society of America. 

 Arrangements have been made for meetings of these three organizations, 

 each with its respective field and yet so closely related one to the other, 

 that it is difficult to define sharply the spheres of influence, since one of 

 our most prominent Entomologists expressed himself years ago to the 

 effect: that- All Entomology is economic. This is literally true. The 

 work of the economic Entomologists, while more obviously practical and 

 of immediate advantage, is dependent to a very large degree upon the 

 efforts of the systematist in defining genera and species, particularly the 

 latter. The entomological meetings at Toronto may not be so largely 

 attended as those held near the great centers of population yet they 

 promise to be exceptionally interesting not only from the historic side 

 but on account of the presumably unusually large percentage of leading 

 Entomologists likely to be in attendance. The occasion offers another 

 excellent opportunity for cementing anew the ties of good fellowship 

 and cooperation along scientific lines, which have prevailed since the 

 early days of entomological work. 



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