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President Sanderson : We will next hear the report of the Auditing 

 Committee by Mr. O'Kane. 



REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE 



The committee respectfully reports that it has examined the books of the secre- 

 tary and has found them correct. 



W. C. O'Kane, 



E. C. Cotton, 

 Committee. 



President Sanderson : The next report is that of the Committee 

 on Memorial Resolutions, by Professor Osborn. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MEMORIAL RESOLU- 

 TIONS 



In the death of Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists has lost one of its most brilliant and active 

 members and it is with deep sense of its loss that it now records its 

 admiration of the man and his work. 



Mr. Kirkaldy was eminent as a systematist and had contributed 

 largely to the growth of knowledge, especially in the group Hemiptera. 

 Especially in his recent Catalogue of Heteroptera, unfortunately com- 

 plete for only part of the group, he has placed workers in entomology 

 permanently in his debt. While still young and with prospect of a 

 most useful career for the future, the work he had already accomplished 

 will stand as an enduring testimony of his ability and industry. 



In the death of Mr. J. A. West the Association was lost one of its 

 younger and valued members. He was generally recognized as a 

 scientist of exceptional ability and by those who knew him more in- 

 timately he was appreciated as a painstaking and energetic worker. 

 His ability was also recognized by the progressive agriculturists in his 

 own and many other states where he was so often called for ad- 

 dresses on entomology. 



Resolved, That these resolutions be placed in the published records 

 of this meeting of the Association and that copies be transmitted to 

 the families of the deceased. 



Herbert Osborn, 

 John J. Davis, 



Co7nmiUee. 



Voted that the report of the committee be accepted and the recom- 

 mendations adopted. 



President Sanderson: The report of the Committee on Nomina- 

 tions is next in order. 



