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as well as adding to the usefulness of the organization as a whole. The expense to 

 members seeking positions would be far less than that at present paid to teachers' 

 agencies. It has been suggested that some one duly appointed should have a book of 

 registration in which any entomologist desiring employment or change of position 

 should be entered, with his qualifications. From this register the information would 

 be given to entomologists desiring to fill positions. A small fee would probably have 

 to be charged to cover the cost of correspondence and clerical work. Whoever had 

 charge of this work would necessarily be expected to regard communications from 

 applicants as confidential. 



Respectfully submitted, 



F. L. Washburn, 

 Herbert Osborn, 

 A. F. Burgess. 



Committee. 



President F. L. Washburn: Any comments upon the report? 



WiLMON Newell: Mr. President, I move that the report be 

 adopted and that the President and Secretary of the Association be 

 authorized to put its recommendations into effect. Carried. 



President F. L. Washburn : I will now appoint the committees 

 for the meeting. 



Committee on Resolutions: P. J. Parrott, S. J. Hunter and W. C. 

 O'Kane. 



Committee on Memorial Resolutions: H. T. Fernald, T. B. 

 Symons and T. J. Headlee. 



Committee on Auditing: J. G. Sanders and A. L. Quaintance. 



Committee on Affiliation with Agricultural Organizations: F. M. 

 Webster, S. A. Forbes and W. C. O'Kane. 



Committee on Nominations: E. P. Felt, E. L. Worsham and 

 W. D. Hunter. 



I will add one member to the Committee on Affiliation of the Horti- 

 cultural Inspectors with this Association, namely, Mr. Burgess, and 

 to the Membership Committee, Mr. Ball. 



I have been asked to announce that the annual meeting of the Jour- 

 nal of Economic Entomology Publishing Company will be held at the 

 New Ebbitt Hotel at 4.45 this afternoon. The annual address before 

 the Entomological Society of America will be given by Prof. J. H. Com- 

 stock at the Cosmos Club at eight o'clock tonight. On Thursday 

 night the annual meeting of the American Association of Horticultural 

 Inspectors will be held at the New Willard Hotel and on Friday night 

 the members of the Association will be the guests of the Entomological 

 Society of W-ashington at a smoker at the Saengerbund Hall. 



The next business will be action by the Association on the follow- 

 ing amendment to the constitution as proposed by the Executive 

 Committee: ''That article 3 of the By-laws be amended so that sec- 



