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necessary to change the whole tenor of the constitution if a change 

 in the classes of membership was made. 



A. motion to strike out the word "American" in the title of the 

 Association was lost. 



The constitution and by-laws were then taken up section by section 

 and passed with a few minor changes. In the by-laws under order 

 of business for the first session the time for the presentation of the 

 presidential address was changed so that it will follow the routine 

 business. 



By vote of the Association the constitution and by-laws were then 

 adopted to take effect January 1, 1909, and the Secretary was au- 

 thorized to entitle the various articles and sections of the constitution. 



The Report of the Committee on National Control of Introduced 

 Insect Pests, by Mr. Wilmon Newell, w^as read by the Secretary, as 

 follows : 



REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION 



To the AsftociatioH of Economic Entomologists: 



At the 18th Annual Meeting of this Association your correspondent was 

 appointed to represent this body upon a Joint Legislative Committee, to be 

 composed of one member from each the Association of Official Horticultural 

 Inspectors, American Association of Nurserymen and the Association of 

 Economic Entomologists. 



At the 19th Annual Meeting, held at Chicago December 27 and 28, 1907, 

 resolutions which had been agreed upon by the representatives of all three 

 of these organizations were presented and adopted, and your correspondent 

 continued as a member of the Joint Committee. The resolutions adopted by 

 the Association at the Chicago meeting are appended hereto, labelled "Ex- 

 hibit A." (They were published in the Journal of Economic Extomology, 

 Feb., 1908, 1: 3-4.) 



The same resolutions were approved by the Association of Official Horticul- 

 tural Inspectors at Chicago and it then remained for the American Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen to take action on them at its meeting held at :Milwaukee 

 on June 10. 1908. 



The member of the Joint Committee for the Association of Nur.serymen, Mr. 

 Orlando Harrison, made an extended canvass of the nurserymen early in 

 1908 to sound their views upon legislation looking to a uniform national 

 inspection law and suitable inspection of imported nursery stock. The full 

 report of Mr. Harrison to the American Association of Nurserymen is attached 

 hereto, labelled "Exhibit B." (It was published in the Journal of Economic 

 Entomology, Aug., 1908, 1: 270-73), and it was unanimously adopted by that 

 organization. Briefly stated, the Association of Nurserymen refused to en- 

 tertain any further consideration of a national inspection law or to endorse 

 any further efforts towards securing one. The Association did, however, en- 

 dorse thorough inspettion of imported nursery stock. 



In view of this attitude of the nurserymen towards a uniform inspection 

 law, your representative would respectfully recommend that the Association 



