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REPORT OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE 



Mr. Chairman: 



Your committee after considering the action taken by this Association and the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists, recommends that Mr. J. G. Sanders be 

 selected for permanent Secretary for our section. The First Vice-President, Prof. 

 E. L. Worsham, of the Economic Association will serve as the Chairman for our 

 next meeting. 



Respectfully submitted, 



F. L. Washburn. 



T. B. Symons. 



N. E. Shaw. 



The report of the Committee was adopted, and it was moved and 

 carried that the Secretary cast the ballot for the election of Professor 

 Sanders for Secretary. 



This concluded the business transacted at the meeting. 



PRESIDENT'S] ADDRESS 



By T. J. Headlee, New Brunswick, N. J. 



Fellow-members of the American Association of Official Horticultural 



Inspectors: 



Your president desires to express himself as deeply appreciative of the 

 honor that you have seen fit to confer upon him. It has not been 

 customary for the chairmen of this body to make lengthy addresses 

 and it is not purposed to violate the custom in this instance. 



Your chairman desires to invite your attention to an interpretation 

 of the duties of the horticultural inspection service based on a funda- 

 mental conception of the end it is to serve and to make certain sug- 

 gestions for its improvement. 



The origin and distribution of animal and plant species in a state of 

 nature has been in progress from earliest time. Nature in the form 

 of climatic factors and physical features has set the bounds of the 

 distribution of each species. In general, species arise and distribute 

 themselves as widely as these factors operating on them directly and 

 through their food plants and their enemies, indirectly, will permit. 

 It is, therefore, to be expected that, climate not forbidding, the insect 

 and fungous enemies of the specific plant will usually be able to follow 

 it to the ends of the earth. 



When man began to transport plants from all parts of the world, 

 he incidentally carried along their insect and fungous enemies. Con- 

 sidering our own country, the plants usually came fairly free from their 

 enemies; but repeated importations finally brought them in sufficient 



