February, '11] ENTOMOLOGISTS' proceedings ia> 



Mr. Symons: I move that the report of the committee be received 

 and the committee continued. 



President Sanderson: The substitute motion that the report be 

 received and the committee continued is carried. 



We have also the report of the Executive Committee, which wa^ laid 

 over until this time. What is your pleasure? It might be in order for 

 me to refresh your minds as to the suggestions of the committee. 

 First, to adopt the policy of paying the expenses of the secretary, second 

 to have a standing committee on entomological investigations, as sug- 

 gested by the paper of Doctor Headlee, and third that the incoming 

 executive committee submit an amendment that the dues be raised 

 $1 to include the Journal, with the understanding that the Secretary 

 of this Association be made business manager of the publishing asso- 

 ciation in order to give the secretary as much remuneration as possible. 



Mr. J. B. Smith: I move the first recommendation be adopted. 

 Carried. 



President Sanderson: The second point is on the matter of a 

 committee on entomological investigations. 



Mr. Symons: I move that the second recommendation be adopted. 



Mr. Headlee: This committee, to do its best work, ought to be 

 representative of different sections of the country, and I doubt whether 

 three persons is a sufficient number to make a representative com- 

 mittee. I think we ought to adopt this. 



Mr. Washburn: What are the duties of this committee? Why do 

 we need such a big committee? I should suppose a very small com- 

 mittee would do. 



Mr. Headlee: The reason I suggest a larger committee is this: 

 The problems in the different sections of the country vary greatly. 

 The Southern problems are very different from the Northern, and the 

 Western are very different in many respects from the Eastern. If we do 

 not have a committee representing these different sections of the coun- 

 try, we are not going to get as good discussions of the projects under 

 way; we are not going to get as helpful statements in pointing out the 

 desirable and undesirable features and possibilities of change for the 

 better. For instance, say a committee member lives in Texas, where 

 problems are exceedingly different from problems in Minnesota — that 

 man, owing to his familiarity with conditions in the South, ought to be 

 able to modify the discussions submitted by the committee as a 

 whole on southern problems in a very desirable manner. I do not see 

 that there would be any difficulty in coming to an agreement among 

 the members of the committee. The information could be collected 

 and the discussions written by one member, and then sent around to 

 the other members, and they could revise and change as they saw fit,, 

 and then return to the man who did the first writing. 



