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laws? Are we duplicating one another's work too much or too little? 

 Are there not many places where the knowledge of what is in progress 

 elsewhere may enable us to avoid waste of effort? All these and 

 many other questions could be taken up and dealt with in a broad- 

 gauged manner by such a committee as that suggested. 



Indeed, it seems that the multiplicity of projects under considera- 

 tion, when connected with the facts that the very important pests 

 have already had much study and that more than half of the present 

 research work is concerned with subjects that have already had con- 

 siderable attention, would render an attempt at standardization imper- 

 ative. Efforts in this direction should involve not only the gathering 

 of information on projects under consideration and presentation of 

 it to the members of this society, but should include a broad-gauged 

 discussion of the characteristic tendencies of the researches as a whole, 

 pointing out the desirable and undesirable features, and suggesting 

 changes whereby conditions may be improved. 



This report should be in the hands of the members before the annual 

 meeting in order that they may have time to prepare discussions of 

 the report for presentation at the regular meeting. 



A committee selected by this association, consisting of men who 

 thoroughly represent the entomological interests of each of the various 

 sections of North America, would perhaps prove the most successful 

 means of effecting a useful and practical standardization of our work. 



PROJECTS NOW UNDER CONSIDERATION AT STATIONS FROM 

 WHICH INFORMATION WAS RECEIVED 



Arthropoda 



(Not insects) 

 Name of Project Investigator Address 



1 A Systematic and Biologic Study of the 



Crayfish of Mississippi. (Cooperation 



with department of rural engineering) . R. W. Harned Agr. Col., Miss.. 



2 Eriophyidae of New York H. E. Hodgkiss. . . Geneva, N. Y. 



3 Red Spiders A. L. Melander . . . Pullman, Wash. 



Arthropoda 



(Insects) 



Orthoptera 



4 Tree Crickets P. J. Parrott Geneva, N. Y. 



Hemiptera 



5 Efficiency of Sparotrichum globuliferum 



in dealing with the Chinch Bug P. A. Glenn and 



F.H. Billing.* Lawrence, Kan. 



