8 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 10 



New York, N. Y., December 28, 1916, 

 We have examined this statement and have found it to be correct. 



W. E. Britton, 



R. A. COOLEY, 



Auditors. 



By vote of the Association the report was adopted and the financial 

 report referred to the auditing committee. 



Vice-President George A. Dean : We will now hear the report of 

 the committee on nomenclature, Mr. Herbert Osborn. 



The committee on nomenclature had no formal report to offer at 

 this meeting. 



Vice-President George A. Dean: Next in order is the report of 

 the committee on entomological investigations. 



Mr. W. E. Hinds: Last year no report of the committee on en- 

 tomological investigations was published. Owing to a misunderstand- 

 ing I did not know that it was necessary for me to prepare the report 

 this year, hence the inquiries in regard to obtaining the information 

 was sent out rather late in the season. As a result, replies have been 

 received from only a part of the members to whom letters were written. 

 As soon as full replies are received the matter can be turned over to 

 the Journal for printing, if it is the wish of the Association that it be 

 handled in this way. 



Mr. E. p. Felt: I do not wish to be considered as in any way 

 criticising the committee, but I would like to raise the question at this 

 time as to the actual value which the members receive from the pub- 

 lication of this report, and whether it is the intention to publish the 

 projects of the United States Bureau of Entomology. In the past, 

 they have been issued as a government publication, and it would not 

 seem desirable to duplicate them in the Journal. 



Mr. W. E. Hinds: I would be very glad to have an expression of 

 opinion from the members as to the value of the reports of the com- 

 mittee on entomological investigations. Under the present arrange- 

 ment, these must be rather lengthy if they are to be at all complete. 

 It is not the intention, however, to publish the projects of the Bureau 

 of Entomology. 



Mr. W. C. O'Kane: A few j^ears ago there was some discussion as 

 to the advisability of publishing this report once in two or three years 

 instead of annually. I believe myself that it should be published once 

 in a while. If some of the remarks under the projects were cut out, I 

 think it would make the report somewhat shorter and perhaps just as 

 valuable. ^ 



Mr. T. J. Headlee: It seems to me these reports are valuable, but 



