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relating to qualifications for membership and in addition, any further statement that 

 may be necessary to clearly interpret the existing policy of the Association as to 

 standards of membership, with the intent that this statement, after consideration by 

 the Association, be printed on the back of the blank application for associate member- 

 ship. 



In response to the above request your committee submits the following statements : 

 Article II of the Constitution of the American Association of Economic Entomolo- 

 gists reads 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 en- 

 tomology in educational institutions and other persons engaged in practical work in 

 economic entomology, may become members. 



Section 2. The classes of membership shall be active, associate and foreign. Ac- 

 tive membership shall be conferred only on persons who have been trained in en- 

 tomological work and whose practical experience or published papers have evidenced 

 their ability to conduct original investigations in economic entomology. 



Section 3. Associate membership may be conferred on persons who have done 

 general or practical work in entomology and who have by pubUshed papers or other- 

 wise, given evidence of their attainments in such work. 



Section 4. Foreign membership shaU be honorary and shall apply only to mem- 

 bers residing outside of the United States and Canada. 



Section 5. Associate and foreign members shall not be entitled to hold office or to 

 vote. 



Section 6. Membership, other than foreign membership, may be conferred at any 

 regular meeting by a two-thirds vote of the members present upon recommendation 

 of the Committee on Membership, after a regular application endorsed by two active 

 members has been filed with the Secretary. 



Section 7. Foreign members may be proposed in writing by any active member 

 and their names shall be acted upon by the Committee on Membership and the Asso- 

 ciation, as in the case of other members. 



The past policy of the Association has been to admit to associate membership any- 

 one who occupies some position in economic entomology and who is vouched for by 

 two active members, and it is desirable for aU associate members who seek advance- 

 ment to active membership to submit to the committee a statement relative to their 

 education, experience, and pubhcations and when possible to likewise submit pub- 

 lished papers that the committee may be in a position to carefully consider promo- 

 tions. It is further suggested that active members aid the committee by recom- 

 mending such associate members as they deem worthy of advancement and in so 

 doing to submit data to enable the committee to act intelligently on the application, 

 such nominations to be made at least three months prior to the annual meeting. 



It has heretofore been the policy of the Association to elect to active membership 

 from the list of associate members only. 



The committee understands that as a general rule at least, active membership in 

 the American Association of Economic Entomologists should be limited to those doing 

 enough individual teaching or practical work so that economic entomology occupies 

 a considerable share of their time and it can be no reflection upon anyone if he be 

 denied membership simply because his activities are along other lines. Your com- 

 mittee has been governed to a certain extent by a ruhng of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science which is to the effect that members elected to active 

 membership in our Association otII become ehgible to fellowships in the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science so long as we continue to be careful in 

 the selection of our active members. 



Foreign membership shall be honorary, according to the constitution, and nomina- 

 tions for foreign membership, together with full information concerning the publica- 



