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best means of work, its correlation, and uniformity of method so that 

 the results are comparable. Were we informed as to the work our 

 colleagues are doing we might often have such conferences at these 

 meetings, which w^ould be of the greatest value; but unfortunately 

 we often go ahead- with a new project in entire ignorance that it is 

 being attacked by another wdth whom we might readily confer. Then, 

 too, preliminary results, not ready for publication, if exchanged, will 

 often save a large amount of unnecessary work or hasten the progress 

 of investigation. 



With these ends in view your executive committee has recommended 

 the sstablishment of a standing committee to report on the investi- 

 gations in progress and those contemplated, such a digest to be pub- 

 lished in the December number of the Journal, w^hich we will arrange 

 to have issued earlier in the month so that it may be available before 

 our annual meeting. As an example of what such a report might be, 

 Dr. T. J. Headlee has very kindly prepared such a report for this 

 meeting wdiich will furnish some idea as to whether such an under- 

 taking is d3sirable. 



THE IMPORTANCE OF COOPERATION 



This subject of cooperation has engaged the attention of this asso- 

 ciation at periodical intervals for many years. At its sixth meeting 

 Messrs. Osborn, Smith and Garman, made a carefully considered 

 report on this subject, which, however, seems never to have borne 

 much fruit. With the present organization of entomological work in 

 this country it is evident that any cooperation must be purely volun- 

 tary, but that does not necessarily preclude its effective organization. 

 In general we have three classes of workers, those of the state agri- 

 cultural experiment stations, those of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 and the state entomologists, and w^e must consider the interrelations 

 of these classes. 



COOPERATION BETWEEN EXPERIMENT STATION ENTOMOLOGISTS 



This association had its inception with the organization of the 

 agricultural experiment stations under the Hatch Act in 1888. Ai 

 its second meeting President Riley in his address discussed some of 

 these problems in a masterly manner. He said,^ "Every other 

 subject that might be considered on this occasion must be subordi- 

 nate to the one great question of cooperation. With the large increase 

 of actual workers in our favorite field, distributed all over the country, 

 the necessity for some cooperation and coordination musst be apparent 



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