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fee of fifty cents and the annual dues of fifty cents are paid to 

 the Secretary-Treasurer. 



The following officers were elected : President, A. D. Hopkins ; 

 Vice President, H. E. Burke; Recording Secretary. T. E. Snyder; 

 Corresponding Secretary-Treasurer, F. C. Craighead. 



Annual meetings will be held at which the economic side of 

 forest entomology will be discussed including the reading of 

 papers on the conservation of forest resources. It is intended to 

 publish Proceedings when the Society becomes established on a 

 sufficiently extensive basis- In the meantime papers and dis- 

 cussions of general interest will be presented for publication to 

 forestry, entomological and timber journals. 



Persons interested in this movement should correspond with 

 Mr, F. C. Craighead, Corresponding Secretary-Treasurer, Room 

 410, Evening Star Building, Washington, D. C. 



The Federal Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, is the 

 most important legislation looking toward the control of plant 

 diseases that has been passed by Congress for many years. In 

 brief, its object is "to regulate the importation of nursery stock 

 and other plants and plant products ; to enable the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts for 

 plant diseases and insect pests ; to permit and regulate the move- 

 ment of fruits, plants and vegetables therefrom, and for other 

 purposes." 



The power to formulate such rules and regulations as are 

 necessary for carrying out the Act is vested in a Federal Horti- 

 cultural Board consisting of five members appointed by the Secre- 

 tary of A,G:riculture. Of the present organization two each have 

 been selected from the Bureaus of Entomology and Plant Indus- 

 try, and one from the Forest Service. In addition Mr. E. R. 

 Sasser has been api)ointed by the Hoard as Entomological Inspec- 

 tor and Dr. Perley Spaulding as Pathological Inspector. 



For the purposes of the Act, nursery stock is defined as "all 

 field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, 

 scions, buds, fruit pits, and other seeds of fruit and ornamental 

 trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant products for propa- 

 gation, except field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants, 

 and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots. All woody plants 

 and parts thereof for propagation or planting are included within 



