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A BRIEF REPORT ON THE WORK NOW BEING PROSECUTED 

 BY SOME ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS IN THE STATE 

 UNIVERSITIES, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES, AND EXPERI- 

 MENT STATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 



By T. J. Headlee, Ph.D., Professor of Entomology and Zoology in the Agricultural 

 College, and Entomologist and Zoologist of the Experiment Station of Kansas 



INTRODUCTION 



The following suggestion was presented to the executive committee 

 of the American Association of Economic Entomologists by Mr. 

 E. D. Sanderson. 



"It has seemed to me that entomological workers are wasting time 

 and effort in duplication of each other's work without knowledge of 

 what is being done. A knowledge of each other's plans might often 

 preclude unnecessary duplication. In other cases it would insure 

 investigations being carried on in such a manner that the results 

 would be comparable, instead of being so uncomparable as sometimes 

 to lend themselves to conflicting interpretations. We cannot control 

 or compel this, but publicity is a great thing for all such evils. Might 

 we not have a standing committee to report on the progress of econ- 

 omic entomology during the year and to outline the investigations 

 under way or contemplated by American entomologists? This could 

 be done by sending a questionaire to all our workers during the early 

 fall and asking for replies by November 1 . The report of the commit- 

 tee might then be published in the December number of the Journal, 

 and would furnish the basis for conference between workers interested 

 along the same lines while at the winter meeting. It has often occurred 

 that I have been to a meeting and afterwards learned that another 

 man who had been there was working along the same line I was, but 

 I did not know of it at the time. The exchange of views on such mat- 

 ters should be the chief value of our meetings." 



The committee deemed this suggestion sufficiently valuable to 

 merit presentation to this association at its twenty-third annual 

 meeting, and to the end that the members might have more data for 

 deciding whether such a feature as that suggested should be made a 

 regular part of our meetings, requested the writer of this account to 

 prepare a sample report. Although the time was very short, it was 

 thought that enough material might be gotten together to admit 

 of the preparation of a brief statement that would serve the purpose. 

 A tabulated list of the projects that have been reported to him will 

 be placed in your hands for the purpose of enabling you readily to 



