JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



DECEMBER, 1909 



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 terest to subscribers. Papers will be published, so far as possible, in the order of re- 

 ception. All extended contributions, at least, should be in the hands of the editor the 

 first of the month preceding publication. Reprints of contributions may be obtained 

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The forthcoming annual meeting of this Association promises to be 

 one of absorbing interest to the economic entomologist. The program 

 is literally crowded with valuable papers and the exhibit of entomo- 

 logical material and methods cannot fail to stimulate interest and 

 lead to further improvements. A large attendance is assured and 

 the mutual interchange of ideas which will result must have a marked 

 influence on the science which we are all striving to advance. The 

 benefits to be derived from participating in such meetings are more 

 than personal ; the member who attends receives first-hand information 

 much of which he can transmit directly to his constituents for their 

 own use in preventing loss from destructive insects. Thus the whole 

 country, doubtless without realizing the fact, profits by these con- 

 ventions. 



Each year the Association had made a steady growth both in num- 

 bers and in the influence that it has exerted. The meetings have 

 been characterized by harmony and unity of purpose and the future 

 gives promise of even greater achievements than those that have 

 characterized its progress in the past. 



The Journal op Economic Entomology has proved its usefulness 

 and at the end of the second year of its existence has become a firmly 

 established and well supported publication. 



All these facts should be a source of gratification to the members 

 and should inspire all to unite in a common purpose to build up and 

 develop the Association along practical and progressive lines. 



