February, '16] business proceedings 11 



By vote of the Association the report was accepted and the recom- 

 mendations adopted. 



President Glenn W. Herrick: We will now pass to the report 

 of the committee on amendments to the constitution. 



EEPORT OF THE CO.MMITTEE OX CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS 



The Committee on Constitutional Amendments beg leave to report that they have 

 considered the proposed amendments as printed in the program, and recommend 

 that the}' be adopted. 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. M. Aldrich, 

 J. G. Sanders, 

 E. F. Phillips, 



Committee. 



President Glenn W. Herrick: Is there any discussion of this 

 report? 



Mr. W. C. O'Kane: I would like to ask for a statement in regard 

 to the first amendment which is proposed. 



Secretary A. F. Burgess: Perhaps I can explain this matter 

 better than anj^one present as I attended the summer meeting at 

 Berkeley, Cal. At that meeting the Pacific Slope Association of 

 Economic Entomologists held several joint sessions with this Associa- 

 tion and they asked that a joint committee be appointed to consider 

 what could be done in bringing about an affiliation of that association 

 with ours. A committee was appointed and the matter was considered 

 and a report of it will be found in the October number of the Journal. 

 The sentiment at that meeting was very favorable toward becoming 

 affiliated with this Association, although it was explained that this 

 Association could not act definitely on the matter at that meeting. In 

 order to bring about the affiliation it seemed necessary to slightly 

 amend our constitution so that the Pacific Slope Association could 

 become a branch of this Association. Our constitution at present 

 pro\ddes for sections which are based on projects or activities such as 

 nursery inspection, apiary inspection, etc. The term ''branch" would 

 refer to geographical divisions of the country and seemed to be more 

 appropriate than to use the word "section" for such a division. I sin- 

 cerely hope the amendment will be accepted as proposed by the com- 

 mittee. I think it is a step in the right direction as it will bring to- 

 gether all the economic entomologists in the country under one strong 

 association. The men I conferred with on the coast were anxious to 

 see the matter acted upon favorably and I think this is the logical 

 thing for us to do. 



By vote of the Association the amendments were accepted as 

 recommended by the committee. 



