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and indicated that the name adopted was The Association of Official 

 Economic Entomologists, which was altered at the first annual meting, 

 held in Washington in November of the same year, to read The Associ- 

 ation of Economic Entomologists. Analyzing the official status of the 

 men at the organization meeting, and those at the Washington meeting, 

 and those at the Brooklyn meeting five years later, I stated that I 

 had introduced these brief historical data in my presidential address 

 for the purpose of showing the interesting paradox that this Association 

 was originally made official by non-officials, that it was subsequently 

 made non-official by officials, and that since it was made non-official 

 it had become more official than before. 



As this is simply a historical note suggested by our present place 

 of meeting, it would hardly be appropriate to make further comments; 

 yet I cannot refrain from stating that in the tremendous advance of 

 economic entomology in the United States this Association has played 

 a most important part and that its influence has been felt all over the 

 civilized world. 



What precedes was written mainly from memory, and what I have 

 said about the organization meeting corresponds to the introduction 

 to my address in 1894; but after this was written I consulted the 

 account as given in the Canadian Entomologist for September, 1889, 

 pages 166 to 168, and find that there was a meeting August 28th (the 

 day before the meeting at Scarborough Heights August 29th) of a com- 

 mittee of organization, and that those present who signed the consti- 

 tution on the 29th included, besides those mentioned (with the ex- 

 ception of Mr. E. P. Thompson), C. M. Weed and H. Garman. Weed 

 and Garman were undoubtedly present the day before, but my memory 

 fails me as to their presence on August 29th, and indeed I failed to 

 record them when I wrote the paragraph in the presidential address in 

 1894, only five years after the event. 



All of the persons present at the organization meeting of the Associ- 

 ation of Economic Entomologists were readily accounted for, with the 

 exception of E. P. Thompson. I knew about him in August 1888, but 

 what I knew had been lost from my mind in the intervening years. 

 For the purposes of this reminiscential sketch, it became very desirable 

 to find out something about him. I first consulted the indices of 

 Insect Life, to find if he had written anything entomological about 

 that time, but without result. Then I consulted the Bibliography 

 of American Entomology, no result. I then consulted the corre- 

 spondence files of the Bureau of Entomology for the years 1885 to 

 to 1890, again without result. Then I looked at the list of members of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the 

 year 1888, and found E. P. Thompson, of Beaver Falls, Pa., entered as 



