24 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 12 



Committee on Entomological Policy: E. D. Ball, 5 years; Herbert Osborn, 4 

 years; W. D. Pierce, 3 years; J. G. Sanders, 2 years; and G. A. Dean, 1 year. 



Committee on United States National Museum: J. J. Davis, Chairman, 5 years; 

 V. L. Kellogg, 4 years; E. P. Felt, 3 years; Herbert Osborn, 2 years, and E. D. Ball, 

 1 year. 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. P. Gillette, 

 J. G. Sanders, 

 E. P. Felt, 



Committee. 



Mr. E. C. Cotton: I move that the report be adopted and the 

 Secretary be instructed to cast the unanimous ballot of the association 

 for the candidates named. Carried. 



The ballot was cast by the Secretary and the officers named were 

 declared elected by the President. 



Secretary A. F. Burgess: I move that the next annual meeting 

 be fixed at the same time and place as that chosen by the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, unless it is deemed 

 advisable by the committee on policy to change the time and place. 

 Carried. 



Secretary A. F. Burgess: I would like to say that the paper 

 that has been passed around shows a subscription of $160 for the 

 Journal fund. I think this indicates very strongly the interest of 

 the members of the Association in their publication. Upon motion 

 the meeting was adjourned. 



PART II. PAPERS AND DISCUSSION 



THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS 



ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY— ITS FOUNDATIONS AND 



FUTURE 



By E. D. Ball, Ames, Iowa 



We are passing, today, through an epoch-making period. Decisions 

 are being made and to be made, that will profoundly affect, not only 

 the rights of the individual, but the destinies of nations and the entire 

 superstructure of our political and social universe. We are witnessing, 

 today, the birth of what one of our gifted leaders has christened — the 

 modern world. 



Our country has passed in a short year, from an isolated and indif- 

 ferent entity, interested only in her own development, into a nation 

 that has resolutely taken her place on the forum of democracy. Like 

 a moth out of a chrysalis, she has broken her shell of contentment and 



