1919] Proceedings of the Baltimore Meeting 59 



(American Members, including Hawaiian.) 



Paid for 1918 432 



Owing for one year 63 



Owing for two years or more 46 



(Foreign) 



Paid for 1918 12 



Owing for one or more years 20 



Total 573 



Elected this meeting 21 



Actual present membership 594 



One year ago I reported 386 members fully paid up, which was 

 probably the highest record for the Society at the time; we now have 

 (counting foreign) 444, which shows how splendidly the members have 

 rallied to our support in war time. 



In sending out the annual statements, the Secretary took occasion to 

 suggest that members, nearly all of whom in the United States are now 

 holding bonds of the government, might deposit a fifty-dollar bond in 

 payment for life membership. Four members did this, and two hon- 

 orary fellows, J. H. Comstock and E. A. Schwarz, each donated a bond 

 of the same amount. Other members indicated an intention, and some 

 a hope, of becoming life members in the near future. It is desirable to 

 keep this matter before the attention of members until after the next loan 

 is subscribed. The result has been encouraging, but should be larger.* 



In October, when much of the business of the country was depressed 

 by the wave of influenza, the Secretary received a circtilar from the 

 Permanent Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, in which it was announced that the plans of the Association 

 for the Baltimore meeting were much embarrassed, by reason of an 

 unexpected shortage of meeting rooms in Baltimore, the prevailing 

 influenza epidemic, the general war conditions, and the railroad and 

 hotel congestion. This circular suggested that affiliated societies cut 

 down their meetings to the transaction of necessary business and the 

 consideration of problems urgently important for the winning of the 

 war. In view of the fact that the Association of Economic Entomol- 

 ogists, our sister society, might be expected to take care of urgent 

 entomological problems, the Secretary, in transmitting copies of the 

 circular to members of our Executive Committee, took occasion to rec- 

 ommend the abandonment of our program as our logical duty in the 

 premises. The Executive Committee immediately agreed, and announce- 

 ment was made of this change from our regular policy. Later develop- 

 ments, especially the armistice and the cessation of influenza, so far 

 relieved the situation that I believe we all wish we were to have a program. 

 The decision of the Executive Committee, however, should be viewed from 

 the standpoint of mid-October. No precedent has been established, 

 and the suggestions adopted by our present business session will without 

 doubt operate to give us a better program for next year than we have 

 usually had. Respectfully submitted, 



J. M. Aldrich, Secretary. 



* Since the meeting E. D. Ball, G. C. Crampton and J. F. Illingworth have 

 become life members. 



