February, '11] SANDERSON: ASSOCIATION WORK 33 



Our constitution specifically provides for the admission of teachers as 

 members, and in the future we will see more of a separation of the 

 function of teaching and investigation, as is now taking place in all 

 -lines of agricultural instruction and research. 



THE DUTY OF THE ASSOCIATION TO THE PUBLIC 



As with all national organizations of a public character, as this 

 association has grown in membership and as it will grow in the future, 

 its responsibilities to the public increase, and if it is to receive the 

 general support necessary for its successful maintenance it must not 

 only maintain an annual meeting for the presentation of papers and 

 the discussion of the problems of the profession, but it must exercise 

 its influence in all legitimate ways toward conserving the best inter- 

 ests of our people as they may be affected by insect life. In recent 

 years this association has. had an increasing influence in encouraging 

 needed legislation and in educating the general public upon matters 

 entomological which are of general concern. At the present time one 

 committee is aiding in securing the passage of a national law for the 

 inspection of importations for insect pests. This committee should 

 be given the most loyal support in any way which may lie within our 

 powder, for it is almost a reflection on American entomologists that 

 they have for so long allowed so important a matter to be neglected, 

 particularly in view of the many insect plagues which have visited our 

 shores from foreign countries. In such matters a committee of 

 this association should have the same authority and prestige as a 

 representative committee of the Official Agricultural Chemists or 

 of the American Medical Association as related to matters concern- 

 ing those professions. I fear such is not the case. If not, the fault 

 is not with Congress, nor with the public. The influence of this 

 association is and will be what its members make it, which in the last 

 analysis will depend upon their own estimate of their usefulness and 

 duty to the state. Underlying the success of this organization, as 

 with all professional associations, lies the pride of the man in his pro- 

 fession and his belief in its usefulness to mankind. With a true appre- 

 ciation upon the part of each member of his opportunity in promoting 

 the public weal, of both his privileges and his duties, we cannot but 

 have an association truly national in scope and influence, and in 

 which we all may well be proud to be enrolled. 



OUR PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES 



The problems which present themselves to us for solution seem diffi- 

 cult and sometimes almost impossible, but when we look back over 

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