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to continue the work. In fact the term project has rather too ambi- 

 tious a sound for the scattered and fragmentary investigations which 

 are all that some of us are able to accomplish. 



President W. D. Hunter: Are there any further remarks? 

 If not, we will now vote on the adoption of the report of the committee. 



By vote of the Association the report was adopted. 



President W. D. Hunter: We will now listen to the report of 

 the employment bureau for entomologists, by Mr. F. L. Washburn. 



Mr. F. L. Washburn: I wish to make a brief report on the work 

 which has been attempted. You all understand that this has been 

 carried on for only one year and is in the nature of an experiment. 

 It has been decided during the coming year that a little more publicity 

 will be given to the work by placing a brief notice concerning it in the 

 Journal of Economic Entomology, so that entomologists who 

 wish to secure men may know where to apply and that entomologists 

 desiring employment can have an opportunity of registering with the 

 Bureau, if they see fit. I took charge of this work last year in order 

 to see if a plan of this sort might not be made of value to the Asso- 

 ciation, and I have consented to continue with the work another year, 

 so that it may be given further trial. The same degree of confidence 

 with the men will be respected as in the past. It should be said, how- 

 ever, that although the Bureau will continue to carry on the matters 

 entrusted to its charge in a strictly confidential manner, that it cannot 

 in any way require the institution or parties, who may desire to obtain 

 men, to do the same. It is proposed during the coming year to reduce 

 the fee for registration from $4.00 to $2.00, as it is believed that the 

 latter amount will be ample to cover the cost of clerical work, postage, 

 etc. 



President W. D. Hunter: What action do you wish to take 

 on the report of the employment bureau? 



On a motion by Mr. Gossard the report was adopted. 



President W. D. Hunter: We will next listen to the report by 

 Professor Osborn who was selected to represent this Association at 

 the International Congress of Entomology at Oxford, England. 



REPORT OF DELEGATE TO INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 



To the Association of Economic Entomologists: 



Your President was so good as to honor me with the duty of serving as a repre- 

 sentative of this Association, at the meeting of the Second International Congress, 

 and it is my pleasure to report upon some of the activities of the Congress. 



It may be stated at first that from the organization of the Congress, which is made 

 clear in the first volume of proceedings, which appeared only a short time before the 

 opening of the Second Congress, and wliich had not been distributed at the time of 

 my appointment, it is found that the Congress does not make any provision for the 



