February, '12] ENTOMOLOGISTS' PROCEEDINGS 31 



tion of Economic Entomologists, in point of attendance and in point 

 of interest, is a fair sample of almost any division of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. Several of these sections 

 have divided programmes. There has been an increasing tendency to 

 crowd our programme. The discussions following papers should be 

 more deliberate, — in some cases more extended. I believe it might be 

 well to have a standing committee on programme and that papers pre- 

 sented might be reviewed. This may have been previously discussed. 

 It might be well to classify our programme, so that we will be follow- 

 ing some natural and logical classification and, as individuals, attend 

 one or another section, according as our interests lead us. I have 

 nothing definite in mind and yet I feel certain that the tendency 

 of affairs is in that direction and that, eventually, we will arrive at 

 some such division of our programme, — a discussion of insecticides, 

 perhaps, in one section, life histories in another, methods in another, — 

 or some other such classification. 



E. D. Sanderson: Mr. President, I want to heartily second what 

 Professor Cooley has said. It seems to me that it is the Hne of natural 

 evolution of this Association, as of the Botanical and Chemical Soci- 

 eties, and they are divided as he has said. The main objection to the 

 several organizations, it seems to me, is that it makes an unnecessary 

 amount of machinery and thete is always a chance for conflict in 

 arranging programmes, places of meeting, etc. With one general 

 secretary of an organization looking after the sectional programmes, 

 this would be easier to handle. Then there is another matter, and that 

 is that we are getting in this organization a number of men who are not 

 interested in entomological problems which appeal to many others. 

 I know men who are engaged in shade tree work in our large cities, 

 and others, like our Secretary here, who are working on the gypsy 

 moth in New England, who are very little interested in the Hessian 

 Fly in Kansas, for instance. Now, there is a large number of these 

 city entomologists, we might say, w^ho, if we had a section for that sort 

 of work, might come into this Association, and who are not interested 

 at present. I believe this is the natural line of evolution. 



E. P. Felt: Mr. President, it seems to me that we could probably 

 work out something of that kind, and I think the Secretary would be 

 the party to handle it. That is, one man in one place receives all the 

 titles. If he has to consult with one man 350 miles away and with 

 another party on the Californian coast, it is pretty difficult, and I 

 believe that, with just a little study on the proposition, our Secretary 

 could devise a tentative plan for a sectional programme at our next 

 meeting, and group the papers accordingly, and then the Association, 

 at the beginning of the session, could vote on whether it would have a 



