February, '13] presidential ADDRESS, DISCUSSION 67 



Morning session, Thursday, January 2, 10 a. m. 



President W. D. Hunter called first vice-president Headlee to 

 preside. 



Vice-President Headlee : We will now take up the discussion of 

 the Presidential address. 



Mr. R. a. Cooley: Mr. Chairman, I am very sure that we all 

 found the President's address of much interest. It showed evidence 

 of thoroughness and a grasp of the growing question of medical ento- 

 mology. I might predict that our present Association will soon be 

 divided into two sections; one on agricultural entomology; and one 

 on medical entomology. I believe that this will be the natural course 

 of events and that workers in the latter branch will turn back in years 

 to come and see that this meeting formed the corner stone for such an 

 organization. I was particularly interested in the President's out- 

 line of the functions of medical entomology. Many of us who do work 

 of this sort will find questions arising in relation to this and other re- 

 lated branches of science, and we can always turn to this address as a 

 logical statement of the facts. Figures based on such investigations 

 as those outlined, must naturally convince us that we have in medical 

 entomology a subject which will soon develop into one of the main 

 branches of economic entomology. I feel sure that we as a profession 

 should feel very grateful for this paper which will doubtless become a 

 classic. 



Mr. W. E. Britton: I feel very grateful to Mr. Hunter for present- 

 ing such an interesting paper. I wish tliat some arrangement might 

 be made for having a large number of reprints made to be distributed 

 throughout the country in libraries and journals, so that it will have 

 a wider distribution than if published in our journal alone; because 

 I think that people are becoming much interested in papers of this 

 sort. I would be very much pleased to see the paper distributed in 

 this form. Again I wish to thank Mr. Hunter for his admirable 

 address. 



Mr. T. B. Symons: Unfortunately, I was not able to hear the paper 

 by Mr. Hunter, but we all appreciate this work. I have been think- 

 ing that possibly it might be well for this Association to have one joint 

 session with Section K, and that this might bring us in closer touch 

 with medical work which is being done. It seems to me that the closer 

 we can cooperate along this line, the better it will be for all concerned. 

 Vice-President T. J. Headlee: I have seldom had the pleasure 

 of listening to such a logical and interesting address as the one de- 

 livered by our President. It clearly shows that the time is at hand 

 when medical entomology will be considered as important as agricul- 

 tural entomology, and that perhaps in the future it may even surpass. 



