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Howard, it was moved and carried that, as a special honor, he be 

 elected a foreign member without the formality of having his name 

 referred to the membership committee. 



The President announced the appointment of the following com- 

 mittees : 



Membership — Messrs. Summers, J. B. Smith and Forbes. 



Resolutions — Messrs. W. D. Hunter, Washburn and Sanderson. 



Nominations — Messrs.- Osborn, Felt and Newell. 



Auditing — Messrs. Sherman and Fernald. 



Constitution — Messrs. Burgess, J. B. Smith and Symons. 



As the standing committees elected at the last annual meeting were 

 not ready to report, no further business was transacted until the 

 afternoon session. 



On motion of ]\Ir. Symons, it was voted that the representatives of 

 the American Association of Nurserymen, who had been invited to 

 attend the meeting, be given the privileges of the floor. 



Mr. Newell, the representative of the Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists on the joint committee on national control of introduced 

 insect pests, presented the following report: 



To the Association of Economic Entomologists: 



At the last annual meeting, this Association elected one member to act on a 

 joint committee on legislation, to be composed of one member each from the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists, the American Association of Nursery- 

 men and the Association of Official Horticultural Inspectors. 



The members of this joint committee have been in correspondence with each 

 other during the year and have today held a meeting at which a definite plan 

 for securing uniformity in the certification of interstate shipments of nursery 

 stock, has been decided upon. While this committee was elected with power 

 to take all advisable action toward the end in view, nevertheless, the members 

 foel that if the plan now decided upon by them be formally approved by the 

 entire Association of Economic Entomologists, the legislation In view will be 

 much more easily secured. 



The committee asks your endorsement of the following plan of procedure: 



A — Resolved, That the Secretary of Agriculture should be empowered to make regu- 

 lations governing importations liable to harbor insect pests or plant diseases ; to require 

 such importations to be accompanied by a certificate of a duly accredited entomologist 

 of the country in which said shipments originate, or, in the absence of such a certificate, 

 to make inspections of such shipments, by competent agents, at the point of destination, 

 and that sufficient appropriation should be made for this purpose by Congress. 



B — 1. That Congress be asked to enact a law empowering the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture to issue certificates of nursery inspection, as nearly uniform as possible, to all nur- 

 series in the United States engaging in interstate trade, upon proper inspection of such 

 nurseries by duly authorized representatives of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, or by State officials approved by the Secretary of Agriculture for that purpose, 

 and that sufficient appropriation be made therefor. 



