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Report was accepted and the recommendations adopted with the 

 exception of the tobacco worm, Crambus sp., which was referred back 

 to the committee for further consideration. 



President E. D. Ball: The report of the Committee on Index to 

 Economic Entomology will now be in order. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE PUBLICATION OF THE INDEX 

 OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



The successful completion of the Index for 1905 to 1914, at a tota cost of $1,212.90, 

 was reported at the last meeting, at which time there was a balance against the work, 

 after deducting receipts from sales, of $284.49. The Secretary of the Association, 

 imder date of December 9 last, states that thirty-seven copies have been sold and paid 

 for during the year and as the stock of bound copies on hand was running very low, 

 300 more copies were bound. He adds that the expense of binding, insurance and 

 postage has made it impossible to reduce the $.300 outstanding which was borrowed 

 from the Association funds. There is, however, to the credit of the index fund at the 

 present time $46.92 and if a reasonable number of sales can be made during the com- 

 ing year, this debt can be considerably reduced. 



A recent letter from Doctor Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, states 

 that he and a number of other men in the Bureau, think it very desirable that a five 

 year Index, covering the years 1915 to 1919, should be prepared. Fm-thermore he 

 will arrange to have the compilation made and as the value of the Index depends to a 

 very considerable degree upon the promptness of its publication, it seems advisable 

 that the compilation be commenced early enough so that the Index will be complete 

 or practically so by the end of the next calendar year, thus making it possible to issue 

 the volume in March or April, 1920. 



This Index covers a five-year period and in order to be on the safe side, it has been 

 estimated that there would be about three foiu^ths as many references as in the volume 

 covering the preceding decennium. This would make a work of about 250 pages. 

 Tentative figures by the printer, based on current prices, indicate that the cost of the 

 completed work would be approximately the same as that of the other volume; in 

 other words, the advance in prices would be approximately offset by the smaller size 

 of the volume. 



The committee therefore recommends that it be continued and authorized to start 

 the work in 1919, along substantially the same lines as were followed in the prepara- 

 tion of the preceding Index, and that the editorial board of the Journal of Economic 

 Entomology be authorized, in its discretion, to proceed with the publication of the 

 Index and to fix, as heretofore, the price of copies. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. p. Felt, 

 A. F. Burgess, 

 W. C. O'Kane, 

 W. E. Britton, 

 W. E. Hinds, 



Committee. 



On motion the report was accepted and the recommendations adopted. 

 President E. D, Ball: The next report is that of the Committee 

 on War Service. 



