February, '12] ENTOMOLOGISTS' PROCEEDINGS 5 



with the Secretary developed that it had been. We have had no 

 meetings, and I would recommend that the committee be discharged. 

 We have no further use for the committee, in view of the fact that 

 the matter is now handled by the Bureau of Entomology and various 

 other bureaus of the United States Department of Agriculture, co-oper- 

 ating. It seems to me that we might have a report upon the various 

 proprietary insecticides in an informal way that might be serviceable 

 to us and keep us posted as to the status of the various insecticides 

 that are being pushed on the market. Of course, that information 

 could not be given out for publication except through official channels. 

 •President F. L. Washburn: You have heard Mr. Sanderson's 

 remarks. Any opinion to be expressed on that report? 



A. L. Quaintance: Mr. President, I hardly think the committee 

 should be discharged, at least for the reasons stated by Mr. Sanderson. 

 I do not see how the Bureau of Entomology, acting under the Insecti- 

 cide Act, could furnish the information that this committee attempted 

 to obtain. 



President F. L. Washburn: There seems to be some objection to 

 the committee being discharged. Any other expression of opinion on 

 that point? The chair rules the committee be continued. 



Report of the Committee on Affiliation with Agricultural Organiza- 

 tions. Mr. Burgess will report for the committee. 



Secretary A. F. Burgess : Mr. Chairman, the Committee on Affili- 

 ation with Agricultural Organizations consists of Professor Bruner, 

 Chairman, Doctor Hopkins and myself. I find that Professor Bruner 

 will not be present and has not sent a report. Dr. Hopkins has 

 handed me a letter from Dr. Allen, of the Office of Experiment Stations, 

 who is Secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 

 Science, which has been largely interested in the proposed affiliation, 

 and, inasmuch as the committee is not ready to make a report, it seems 

 to me that the best thing that can be done will be to have the committee 

 discharged and this letter of Dr. Allen's, with a proposal in regard 

 to affiliation, turned over to a new committee, which can report at 

 the closing session of this meeting. The letter from Dr. Allen states 

 that at the Columbus meeting of the Association of Agricultural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations, five societies, the American Society 

 of Agronomy, the American Society of Animal Nutrition, the American 

 Farm Management Association, the Society for the Promotion of 

 Agricultural Science and the Official Agricultural Chemists, expressed 

 their approval for a plan of affiliation and were willing to federate 

 under the terms which were proposed at the last meeting of this 

 Association, and which were printed in the February number of the 

 Journal. I would suggest that the present committee be discharged. 



