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For Member of Advisory Board of Journal, one year, Wiluion Newell. Baton 

 Rouge. La. 



For Members of Advisory Board, three years, H. T. Fernald, Amherst, 

 Mass. ; Herbert Osborn, Columbus, Ohio. 



For Members of Council, S. A. Forbes, Urbana, 111. ; H. E. Summers, Ames, 

 Iowa. 



Respectfully submitted, 

 E. D. Sanderson, 

 Franklin Sherman, .Jr.. 

 E. S. G. Titus, 



Committee. 



By vote of the Association, the Secretary was instructed to cast 

 a ballot for the officers recommended by the Committee, and they were 

 declared duly elected. 



Mr. Sanderson called attention of the Association to the large' 

 amount of work which now devolves upon the Secretary, and stated 

 that he thought that the expenses incurred by the Secretary in attend- 

 ing the annual meeting should be paid. 



Mr. Britton stated that while he was heartily in favor of paying 

 the Secretary, he believed it would be much better to pay a stated 

 salary than to pay. his expenses when attending the annual meeting. 



By vote of the Association the matter of compensation of the Secre- 

 tary was referred to the Executive Committee for report at the next 

 annual meeting. 



It was voted that the time and place of the next meeting be decided 

 by the Executive Committee. 



There being no further business the meeting adjourned. 



PART II 



The address of the President was presented at the opening session 

 on Monday morning, as follows : 



ASPECTS OF PROGRESS IN ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



By S. A. Forbes, TJrhana, 111. 



It is fifteen years since I had the honor and the privilege of presid- 

 ing over the Fifth Annual Meeting of this Association at Madison, 

 "Wisconsin, and of presenting to it the annual address, and my thoughts 

 naturally revert to the conditions of that time as a means of meas- 

 uring the progress we have made. We have met some very heavy 

 losses since 1893, in Riley, the prince of economic entomologists, and 

 one of the great founders of our science ; in Lintner, a careful, thor- 



