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On motion the report was received and the financial part referred 

 to the auditing committee. 



President W. D. Hunter: I will nov read the report of the Execu- 

 tive Committee, 



REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



The Executive Committee has held no meetings, but several matters have been 

 considered by correspondence. 



A formal invitation to send a representative of the Association to the centenary 

 anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was 

 received. Dr. L. 0. Howard was selected for this mission. 



A delegate to the International Entomological Congress at Oxford in August, 1912, 

 was appointed. A formal memorandum containing the invitation of the Association 

 to the Congress to hold its next annual meeting in the United States was prepared 

 and placed in the hands of Prof. Herbert Osbom, who represented the Association 

 at the meeting. 



In September the Secretary received an invitation from the President of the Na- 

 tional Conservation Congress to send a delegate to the annual meeting of the organiza- 

 tion at Indianapolis in October. 



In October the Secretary received a communication from the Secretary of the 

 Farmers National Congress with the suggestion that delegates be appointed to attend 

 the meeting at New Orleans on November 7 and proposing some form of affiliaton. 



In both of these cases, on account of the shortness of time, the subject was not re- 

 ferred to the Committee on Affiliation with Agricultural Organizations. The com- 

 mittee decided that it would be unwise to enter into any sort of cooperation. The 

 committee considers that the Association has certain definite aims that are only 

 indirectly connected with the functions of the Country Life Federation and the 

 Farmers National Congress. To extend the activities of the Association in the 

 direction of such cooperation would be a revolutionary change in policy. It would 

 tend to detract from the entity of the Association and to congest still further the 

 business to be conducted at the annual meetings. The committee recommends that 

 the matter be referred to the Committee on AffiUation with Agricultural Organiza- 

 tions for further consideration. 



The executive committee was charged with devising means of incorporation. It 

 is to be regretted that the committee has been unable to make any satisfactory prog- 

 ress. One possibility which was investigated was incorporation in the District of 

 Columbia. It was found upon consultation with an attorney and with the District 

 authorites that the present laws would render such incorporation impossible. These 

 laws require that at least a majority of the members of an organization incorporated 

 in the District, shall be residents thAeof. 



As an alternative, incorporation by act of Congress has been considered. The 

 American Society of Florists was incorporated by this means some years ago. We 

 find by correspondence with the men who were connected with this matter that many 

 obstacles were encountered, and it was practically eleven years from the time the 

 idea was first projected until the charter was obtained. During all this time the plans 

 of the Society were agitated by Mr. William R. Smith, superintendent of the Botanic 

 Gardens in Washington. In spite of Mr. Smith's activity and the advantages of his 

 location in Washington, the matter moved very slowly; in some cases it was refused 

 consideration, and in one instance was defeated in one house of Congress after it 

 had passed the other. It was opposed on all sorts of grounds by representatives 



