Feb. '08] JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY ^ 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 



The committee begs leave to report as follows : 



Resolved, That the Association of Economic Entomologists expresses its 

 appreciation of the courtesies extended by the University of Chicago, the local 

 committee on arrangements, and the entomologists of Chicago; and 



Resolved, That this Association hereby expresses its gratitude to Dr. L. O. 

 Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, and the Honorable Secretary of 

 Agriculture, for the editing and publication of its proceedings since its organ- 

 ization, and whereas in the infancy of this organization a means of publi- 

 cation was furnished it by Insect Life, published by the Division of Ento- 

 mology, that this Association trusts that the staff of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology will make free use of the Journal of Economic Entomology now to be 

 instituted as the official organ of this Association; and 



Resolved, That the Association beholds with gratification the recent activity 

 in the study of ticks concerned in the transmission of diseases or that may be 

 found to be so concerned and urges the members to make further and more 

 extensive investigations in this important field ; and 



Resolved, That the Association recommend that apiculture receive more 

 attention from the official state entomologists and especially that attention be 

 paid to the distribution and treatment of the brood diseases of bees; and 



Resolved, That the Association expresses its appreciation of the valuable 

 work being done by Prof. A. L. Herrera, of the Mexican Comission de Para- 

 sitologia Agricola, under conditions of peculiar difficulty, and that the Secre- 

 tary be instructed to notify Professor Herrera of this action ; and 



Resolved, That the Association reiterates its expression in the resolution 

 passed at the New Orleans meeting to the effect that wherever possible the 

 Secretary arrange programs on the symposium plan. 



W. D. HUNTEB, 



E. DwiGHT Sandeeson, 



F. L. Washburn. 



Committee. 



At the suggestion of Mr. Fletcher, the committee submitted a 

 special resolution on the gypsy moth work as follows : 



Resolved, That the Association heartily approves the work now being done 

 in the control of the gypsy moth and brown-tail moth by the state of Massa- 

 chusetts and other states and by the Bureau of Entomology ; and inasmuch as 

 we have heard of criticism of this work from certain quarters, we hereby ex- 

 press our unqualified approbation of the present management and of the 

 methods which it has adopted, and furthermore we would consider a change in 

 policy as most dangerous to the vital interests concerned in the most impor- 

 tant work in applied entomology that has ever been undertaken. 



In discussing this resolution Mr. Fletcher called attention to the 

 excellent results that are being secured from this work, and urged the 

 necessity of a continuance of the same management and policy that 

 has brought about these results. 



It was moved and carried that the report be adopted. The special 

 resolution was then unanimously approved by the Association. 



