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due regard to professional courtesy, and should give proper credit to the source of our 

 ideas, but when this is done the obligation is paid, if we feel that the investigation is 

 for the interest of the public whom we are serving. If a subject is worthy of investi- 

 gation there should be no reason but expediency why one or several workers should 

 not take up the matter, whether it is or is not being prosecuted by the one who has 

 announced it. 



We should have such an understanding between ourselves as would make it decid- 

 edly uncomfortable for those who are guilty of this sort of "parasitism" and who do 

 not give proper consideration to those to whom they are indebted. 



Your committee feels that the general purposes for which it has been created has 

 met with the approval of the membership of this association. We are also encouraged 

 to believe that the general idea of furnishing each other with a statement of the lines 

 of work being carried on is in the line of progress from the action of the directors of 

 the Agricultural Experiment Stations at their recent meeting at Columbus. After 

 some discussion by several of the leading experiment station directors, a motion was 

 imanimously passed by the experiment station section of the American Association of 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, directing the committee on StatiorL 

 Organization and Policy to consider and report at the next meeting how a statement 

 of the projects being carried on by the various experiment stations may be published 

 for their use, either by the office of e.xperiment stations or otherwise. Those who 

 advocate this movement support it with much the same line of reasoning which has 

 been advanced by this committee, and took occasion to compliment the American. 

 Association of Economic Entomologists upon their enterprise in this matter. 



Respectfully^ submitted, 



E. D. Sanderson, 

 » T. J. Headlee, 



Franklin Sherman, Jr., 



Committee. 



(Supplemental Report) 



Crustacea 



1. (A) Crayfish of Mississippi; a systematic and biologic study. 

 R. W. Harned and R. W. Lobdell, Agricultural College, Miss. 



Acarina 



2. Tick investigations in Montana with particular reference to Derynacentor venusttis^ 

 (Cooperation with Bureau of Entomology and U. S. Biological Survey.) 



R. A. Cooley, Mont. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bozeman, Mont. 



Mallophaga 



3. Poultry parasites. A study of the Mallophagan parasites of domestic fowls 

 with methods of control. 



G. W. Herrick, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., Ithaca, N. Y. 



Coleopiera 



4. Elm leaf -beetle; means of control. 



G. W. Herrick, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., Ithaca, N. Y. 

 6. Alfalfa weevil. (Cooperation with Bureau of Entomology.) 

 E. G. Titus, Utah Agr. Exp. Station, Logan, Utah. 



