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delegates to any meeting except that of the Association of Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment stations. I had heard that he had ruled that government funds could 

 be used for that meeting and no other. Dr. True says that this is not so and that 

 he had never made a ruling that money from that source could not be used for other 

 meetings. He says, "The same rules apply to travel outside the state as inside the 

 state, provided the travel is on station business." I think the outlook is rather favor- 

 able for men having their expenses paid occasionally to these meetings. 



Voted that the report be accepted. 



President F. L. Washburn: We will now hear the report of the 

 Committee on Nomenclature by Herbert Osborn. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE 



Your committee on nomenclature would beg to report that during the present 

 year no extended hsts have been offered for approval, and we deem it best not to 

 make any suggestions as to the adoption of another extended Ust at this meeting. 

 The adoption of the preceding list, has brought the number of accepted names up to 

 nearly 300 and it appears to the committee that the adoption of this number furnishes 

 a very good basis for testing the general acceptance and utilization of the society 

 names. So far as we have been able to determine, the names authorized by the 

 society have in general been accepted by working entomologists, but there have been 

 a number of cases where these recommendations seem to have been overlooked or 

 neglected, sometimes with disadvantage to the uniform usage in entomological 

 papers. The following names have been suggested by Mr. R. L. Webster, and are 

 proposed for adoption at this time: 



Potato flea-beetle Epitrix cucumeris Harris. 



Box elder aphid Chaitophorus negundinis Thomas. 



These are recommended by the committee and we would ask a vote upon them at 

 this time. The committee has been asked to propose some fixed rules concerning the 

 h\'phenization of the common names of insects, and while we realize the desirability 

 of uniformity in this matter, it seems to the committee that it is hardly possible to 

 enforce any common usage in this matter and that it will be as well to adhere for the 

 present simply to the adoption of the names and that for the hyphenization, authors 

 should follow one of the standard dictionaries as perhaps the most convenient plan. 

 Since the usage in dictionaries differs, this, of course, will not insure uniformity and 

 the committee is not prepared to specify any one dictionary which it might consider 

 preferable as a standard. 



Herbert Osborn, 

 a. l. quaintance, 

 Committee. 



President F. L. Washburn : You have heard the report— what is 

 your pleasure? 



On motion, the report was accepted. 



The report of the Committee on Testing Proprietary Insecticides 

 will be presented by Mr. Sanderson. 



E. D. Sanderson: Mr. President, I beg to saj^ that it was my 

 impression that this committee was not continued, but correspondence 



