February, '13] ENTOMOLOGISTS' PROCEEDINGS 19 



By vote of the Association the report was accepted and the com- 

 mittee discharged. 



President W. D. Hunter: The next order of business is the report 

 of the special committee on amending the Constitution. 



Mr. W. E. Britton: In connection with this report I will say that 

 it is the understanding of the committee that it would be desirable, 

 in case the proposed affiliation is brought about between this Associa- 

 tion and the Association of Horticultural Inspectors and the Associa- 

 tion of Apiary Inspectors, that one vice-president of this Association 

 be a horticultural inspector and that the other vice-president be an 

 apiarj' inspector. It seems probable that it will also be necessary to 

 divide future meetings into sections and it will be the duty of the 

 vice-presidents to preside as chairmen over the sections which they 

 represent. 



REPORT or COMMITTEE ON AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION 



The following changes in the constitution have been proposed: 



Strike out the first sentence in Article IT, Section 1. In the following sentence 

 after the word "entomologists" add "horticultural or apiary inspectors," so that 

 the sentence will read as follows: "All economic entomologists, horticultural or 

 apiary inspectors employed by the federal or state governments may become mem- 

 bers." Making the Section read as follows: 



Section 1. All economic entomologists, horticultural or apiary inspectors em- 

 ployed by the General or State Governments or by the State Experiment Stations, 

 or by any agricultural or horticultural association, and all teachers of economic 

 entomology in educational institutions and other persons engaged in practical work 

 in economic entomology may become members. 



In Article III, Section 1, omit the last sentence, which provides for the appoint- 

 ment of the membership committee by the President of the Association. 



This committee approves these changes and recommends their adoption. 



The constitution provides that all officers and committees not otherwise provided 

 for shall be elected by ballot on the recommendation of the Committee on Nomina- 

 tions. We therefore recommend that a committee on membership be elected at 

 this meeting, one to serve three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and 

 that at each subsequent meeting one member be elected for a period of three years. 



Respectfully submitted, 



W. E. Britton, Chairman, 

 ^ WiLMON Newell, 



A. W. Morrill, 



Committee. 



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President W. D. Hunter: I believe it would be well to hear the 

 report of Professor Symons of the Committee on Affiliation with 

 Horticultural Inspectors, before acting on this report. 



Mr. T. B. Symons: I am submitting the following report which is 

 drawn up in the form of a resolution to which is attached a plan of 

 the proposed affiliation: 



