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President Washburn: The next paper will be on ''European 

 Conditions in 1910 and General Inspection Prospects," by Dr. L. 0. 

 Howard of Washington. 



REMARKS ON INSPECTION AND SOME CONSIDERATION OF 

 EUROPEAN CONDITIONS IN 1910 



Bj' L. O. Howard 

 {Author's Abstract) 



The speaker described the establishment of an inspection service in 

 Belgium, and gave the details concerning the recently established 

 inspection service of nursery stock intended for foreign shipment in 

 France, the details of which are given in the Journal of Economic 

 Entomology for December, 1909, 3: 499-502. He also recounted 

 his experiences in the nursery-growing regions of France in June, 

 1910, showing that in the very localities where the gypsy moth and 

 the brown-tail moth had been unusually abundant in the summer of 

 1909, practically none were to be found at the corresponding period 

 in the summer of 1910. No gypsy moths and no brown-tail moths 

 were to be found in any of the great nursery-growing regions of Orleans, 

 Angers and Ussy. This he stated is an encouraging condition of affairs 

 for those who have to inspect imported stock in this country during 

 the 'coming winter, but it by no means indicates that rigidity of inspec- 

 tion should be lessened; 



The speaker gave an account of the hearings on the Simmons Bill 

 held in the spring of 1910, and stated that the bill had been reintro- 

 duced, and that an effort will be made to secure its passage during 

 the coming session. He indicated that the opposition of the Legisla- 

 tive Committee of the National Nurserymen's Association centered 

 on section 8 of the Simmons Bill, which gives the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture power to quarantine against any section of a foreign country 

 in which there has been showai to exist in dangerous quantity insects 

 or plant diseases, new to the United States. He stated that in his 

 opinion should the bill become a law wdthout this section, it would be 

 very much better than no quarantine or inspection bill at all, but that 

 in the opinion of the phytopathologists, especially, the section in 

 question, is one of great importance. 



Other general features of the situation were referred to. 



[Extracts were then read from the following paper, which in view of the great prac- 

 tical importance of the subject, is pubUshed in full. — Ed.] 



