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Amendments to the Constitution. 



Section I, Article III, insert the words "branch or" before the word "section" 

 in line two so that the first sentence of Section I will read as follows: "The offi- 

 cers shall consist of a president, one vice-president and an additional vice-president 

 for each branch or section who shall be elected annualJy, and a secretary who 

 shall be elected for a term of three years, who shall perform the duties customarily 

 incumbent upon their respective offices and as defined in the by-laws." 



Add a new section to Article II as follows: "Section IV. The publication of the 

 Journal of Economic Entomology shall be entrusted to an editor, an associate 

 editor and a business manager nominated by an advisory committee of six mem- 

 bers, which latter shall be elected for terms of three years so arranged that two shall 

 be elected annually. The members of this committee shall have an advisory re- 

 lation to the above constituted editorial board." 



On motion of Mr. E. P. Felt the executive committee was author- 

 ized to accept and take the necessary action on the apphcation of the 

 Pacific Slope Association of Economic Entomologists as a branch of 

 this Association. 



President Glenn W. Herrick: The next business on the program 

 is the nomination of Journal officers by the advisory board. Only 

 one member of this board is here and he has had no time to give at- 

 tention to this matter. It has been suggested that the Association by 

 general motion elect the officers as it is necessary that the matter be 

 acted on at this time. 



Mr. C. Gordon Hewitt: I move that the present officers of the 

 Journal be elected for the ensuing year. 



The motion was unanimously adopted. 



President Glenn W. Herrick: I now call for the report of the 

 committee on index of economic entomology. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE PUBLICATION OF THE INDEX 

 OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



It is a pleasure to state that, through the cooperation of Dr. L. O. Howard and 

 the untiring efforts of Dr. Nathan Banks, this important work will be completed 

 shortly. Dr. Banks, who has had immediate charge of the undertaking, states that 

 about 24,000 references have been entered and fully 1,000, possibh- 2,000 or more 

 from the less important agricultural journals are yet to be assembled. He is of the 

 opinion that the work can be completed possibly in one, and certainly in two months. 

 The index will make, if printed as planned in ten point type, double column, a 

 publication of approximately 250 pages. This is more than was estimated in Decem- 

 ber 1914 and just about the size of the bibliography as planned in 1913. 



There is no question as to the great utility of this work and we feel that it marks 

 a distinct advance in reference literature. Your committee recommends that the 

 undertaking be pushed to an early completion and that in the event of its being 

 impossible to find any other satisfactory publishing agency, that the American 

 Association of Economic Entomologists issue the index in accordance with the plan 

 outlined in the report which was submitted and favorably acted upon at the Atlanta 

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