10 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 5 



E. D. Sanderson: I move it be made a special order for Friday 

 morning. Carried. 



President F. L. Washburn : Report of the Committee on Entomo- 

 logical Investigations, by; E. D. Sanderson. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ENTOMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS 



To the American Association of Economic Entomologists: 



Your committee on entomological investigations begs leave to report, as follows: 



A preliminary report of the committee giving the entomological projects now- 

 being investigated by members of the association has been pubhshed in the Decem- 

 ber number of the Journal of Economic Entomology. Since that time several work- 

 ers have furnished additional reports and their list of projects is appended herewith. 

 Your committee sent out letters of inquiry to the heads of the departments of 48 

 institutions, 45 reports were received. Of these, 34 gave a statement of their proj- 

 ects; 6 replied, but either were carrying on no investigations or were unable to 

 report; and 5 dechned to report. 



The 34 parties reporting had a total of 154 projects. Of these, 77 were investiga- 

 tions of the life history and means of control of certain insects; 31 involved merely 

 means of control of insects; 10 were monographic studies; 10 were studies of groups 

 of insects affecting certain crops; 9 were investigations of insecticides; 5 were 

 studies of various phases of environment as affecting insect life; 4 were studies of 

 parasites and parasitism; 3 were general biological studies; 2 investigations con- 

 sidered the relation of certain insects to disease; and 2 projects used insect material 

 in the study of the principles of heredity. It is thus seen that half of the projects 

 relate to individual insect pests, while about 15 per cent are broad investigations of 

 fundamental problems of insect biology or control. 



Of the 154 projects, report was made of 110 in regard to the funds from which they 

 were supported. Of these 110 projects, 33 were supported by the Adams Fund, 

 although at least half as many more supported by state funds were of a similar 

 nature. In general, the experiment station entomologists have but one or two 

 Adams Fund projects, in a few cases their entire time being devoted to this work, but 

 one station reports four Adams Fund projects and another five. It seems to your 

 committee that it is doubtful whether over two, or at most three, investigations, such 

 as are contemplated under the Adams Act, can be properly carried on at a station 

 under this fund, unless there be a large force of entomological workers. 



Interest seems to have waned in the San Jose scale, as only thi-ee states reported 

 upon it as against fom- of last year. Seven states are investigating the Woolly Aphis, 

 namely: Arkansas, IlUnois, Kansas, Georgia, Maryland, Ohio and Virginia. Seven 

 states are investigating the Peach Tree Borer, namely: Tennesee, Arkansas, Texas, 

 Mississippi, Missouri, Maryland and Canada, three of these investigations being 

 under the Adams Fund. Seven workers in six states are investigating the Codling 

 Moth, namely: Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Utah, New York and Georgia. 



The number of investigations of the Woolly Aphis and the Peach Tree Borer would 

 seem to indicate a widespread interest in these two insects. Your committee is not 

 prepared to say that it is not desirable that this work should be duphcated in all of 

 these states. It would seem evident, however, that where several adjacent states 

 are investigating the same insect that their conclusions must necessarily, if correct, 

 be very similar and it would seem highly desirable that there be some co-operation, 

 in outlining this work, in method of reporting it, and by way of conference concern- 

 ing its progress. The committee would suggest that where it is found that so large a 



