February, ■'14] ENTOMOLOGISTS' PROCEEDINGS 23 



ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 

 City op Washington, District of Columbia: 



"We, the undersigned 



P. J. Parrott, Geneva, N. Y. 



W. D. Hunter, Washington, D. C, 



A. L. Quaintance, Washington, D. C. 

 being persons of full age and citizens of the United States, and a majority being citi- 

 zens of the District of Columbia, pursuant to and in conformity with Sections 599- 

 604 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, enacted by the Senate and House 

 of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled and ap- 

 proved March 3, 1901, hereby associate ourselves together as a body corporate, and 

 certify in writing: 



1. That the name of the body corporate is the American Association of Eco- 

 nomic Entomologists. 



2. That the term for which the Association is organized is perpetual. 



3. That the particular business and objects of the Association are to promote the 

 science of economic entomology, to stimulate and coordinate the efforts of American 

 Entomologists and (1) to discuss new discoveries, to exchange experiences, and to 

 carefully consider and promote the best methods of work in economic entomology; 

 (2) to give opportunity to individual workers of announcing proposed investigations 

 so as to bring out suggestions and avoid unnecessary duplication of work; (3) to 

 suggest and encourage, when possible, certain lines of investigation upon subjects 

 of general interest within the scope of this association; (4) to promote the study and 

 advance the science of entomology and (5) to publish and encourage the publication 

 of matter pertaining to entomology. 



Jf. That the affairs, funds and property of the Association shall be in general charge 

 of an executive committee consisting of the President, tliree Vice-Presidents and 

 the Secretary-Treasurer, all of whom shall be elected from members of the Asso- 

 ciation. 



Witness our hands and seals, 



Witness: Percival J. Parrott (Seal) 



E. Porter Felt Walter D. Hunter (Seal) 



as to all Altus L. Quaintance (Seal) 



District of Columbia, ss: 



I, W. Spencer Armstrong, a Notary Public, in and for the District of Columbia, do 

 hereby certify that Percival J. Parrott, Walter D. Hunter and Altus L. Quaintance, 

 personally well known to be the persons who signed the foregoing and annexed certifi- 

 cate of incorporation of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, 

 personally appeared before me in said District, this 29th day of December, 1913, and 

 acknowledged the same to be their act and deed. 



Witness my hand and seal this 29th day of December, 1913. 



W. Spencer Armstrong, 

 Notary Public, Dist. of Col. 

 (Notarial Seal.) 



