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REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



The Executive Committee has pleasure in announcing that the question of a seal 

 has been settled in accordance with the wishes of the Association and the instructions 

 received at the last meeting. The committee was empowered to select either a plain 

 seal or one bearing a profile of Harris and to have the seal prepared for official use. 

 Under the direction of the President a design was made which included a profile of 

 Harris, and the seal which has now been cut and completed is submitted for in- 

 spection. It is hoped that the result will meet with the approval of the members of 

 the Association. 



The President and Trustees of the Rutgers College of New Brunswick, X. J., in- 

 vited the Association to send a delegate to the celebration of the 150th anniversary 

 of the founding of the college which was held at Xew Brunswick, X. J., on October 

 13 to 15. Accordingly the President appointed Mr. P. J. Parrott of Geneva. N. Y., 

 to represent the Association on this occasion. Mr. Parrott attended the celebration 

 and has submitted an interesting account of the Proceedings; his report is included 

 in the records of the Association. 



C. Gordon Hewitt, 

 E. D. Ball, 



W. J. SCHOENE, 



T. J. Headlee, 

 A. F. Burgess, 



Executive Committee. 



By vote of the Association the report was adopted. 

 Vice-President George A. Dean: The report of the Employ- 

 ment Bureau is now in order. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF ENTOMOLOGISTS' EMPLOYMENT BUREAU 



December 26, 1916. 



The Entomologists' Employment Bureau, organized five years ago, seeks to in- 

 terest and help in the most impartial and impersonal manner possible, both employers 

 and employees in the field of entomology. Its pohcy, under the present adminis- 

 tration, has been, therefore, simply to bring together candidates seeking positions in 

 various phases of entomological work and those employers who are responsible for 

 the recommendations or appointments to such positions. When information con- 

 cerning a possible position comes to the attention of the Bureau, it has been the 

 practice to furnish to the employer a list of several names of such men as appear 

 from their enrollment blanks to be best fitted for the position in question and pos- 

 sibly available for the appointment. An abstract of the principal points given on the 

 enrollment blank with the names of parties to whom the candidate refers for addi- 

 tional information is furnished the employer for each name. (Copies of the forms 

 used may be obtained on application.) It is expected that the employer should 

 then select and communicate with such candidates as he desires to investigate further. 

 Notice is also sent to each candidate whose name has been thus used, giving him 

 notice of the reference so that he can, if he so desires, get into direct communication 

 with the employer and learn full details regarding the position, and present com- 

 plete and up-to-date information regarding his own qualifications for appointment. 



During the calendar year 1916, twenty-two new names have been enrolled in the 

 Bureau. Two men have received the total of 10 references offered by the Bureau 

 for the enrollment fee of $2, and one of these has re-enrolled. The total number on 

 the roU at present is 63. 



