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investigation of the more important orders of insects and special 

 subjects, as follows: Scolytid beetles — A. D. Hopkins; Forest 

 Hymenoptera — S. A. Rohwer ; Forest Lepidoptera — August 

 Busck; Forest Coleoptera (general) — W- S. Fisher; Forest 

 Diptera — C. T. Greene; Forest Isoptera — T. E. Snyder; Ceram- 

 bycid larvae — F. C. Craighead ; and Buprestid larvae — H. E. 

 Burke. 



Some of the special field investigations now under way are — 

 the investigation of chestnut insects and their relation to the 

 chestnut bark disease, general ; insect damage to telegraph and 

 telephone poles, posts, mine props, etc., by T. E. Snyder; re- 

 lation of lightning and insects to the death of trees, by W. D. 

 Edmonston; damage to fire and insect-killed timber by wood- 

 boring insects, by B. T. Harvey; damage to forest tree seeds by 

 insects, by J. M. Miller; damage to reproduction of pine by tip 

 moths and pitch worms, by Josef Brunner ; the relation of mistle- 

 toe and witches broom on living trees to attack by insects, by H. 

 E- Burke. 



Experiments are under way to determine the relative immunity 

 of different untreated and treated woods from damage by termites, 

 by T. E. Snyder, and experiments are planned to determine the 

 smallest percentage of an infestation to be disposed of to insure 

 the control of the dep: edations by the various species of Den- 

 droctonus beetles. 



As a sequel of this meeting an organization to be known as the 

 Society for the Advancement of Forest Entomology in America 

 was eftected on March i, 1913, with A. D. Hopkins, T. E. Snyder, 

 S. A. Rohwer, F. C. Craighead, C. T. Greene, and W. S. Fisher, 

 of Washington, D. C, H. E. Burke and J- M. Miller, of Placer- 

 ville, California, Josef Brunner, of Missoula, Montana, and W. 

 D. Edmonston, of Ashland, Oregon, as charter members. 



The object of this Society is to promote a more general interest 

 in the subject of forest entomology and the protection of forest 

 resources from avoidable waste due to the depredations of insects. 



Membership is open to persons who manifest an interest in the 

 subject of insects in their relation to the forest resources and the 

 forest products of North America, providing that they are recom- 

 mended by a member or a responsible person, and the initiation 



