184 ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



AFTERNOON >SESi<!ION, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 3, 1906. 



On motion, it was decided that the next annual meeting should be 

 held in New York City in conjunction with the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. 



Mr. W. D. Hunter, chairman, presented the followino- report: 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL CONTROL OF INTRODUCED 



INSECT PESTS. 



Your committee is impressed witli the sreat advisability of some definite 

 fiction, and considers that the time for the beginning of such action has arrived. 



The Government has delegated to certain bureaus full authority in the control 

 of diseases of live stock that are likely to spread to such an extent as to cause 

 great public loss. The committee believes in the wisdom of the general policy 

 established thereby. Inasmuch as similar cases have occurred in this coimtry 

 and ai-e likely to occur again, in which the subject comes within the domain of 

 the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of xVgriculture, your committee 

 recommends the following plan of action : 



(1) That this Association, by nomination, select a committee of five members 

 to consider the matter carefully and report at the next meeting. 



(2) That this committee be instructed to confer with the Chief of the Bureau 

 of Entomology in the preparation of its report. 



(3) That the committee be instructed to confer with a committee charged 

 with the fornudation of plans for obtaining uniform nursery inspection regula- 

 tions, selected at the last meeting of the National Association of Horticultural 

 Inspectors. 



(4) Your committee recommends the consideration of the following scheme: 



(A) The granting to the Bureau of Entomology of full authority to inspect at 

 the ports of entry all commodities likely to carry injurious insects. 



(B) The granting of authority for the Bureau to take whatever action may 

 be necessary in the eradication or control of species that have been or may be 

 introduced accidentally, wherever, in the judgment of the chief of that Bureau, 

 such action is practicable. 



(C) That an effort be made toward the obtaining of uniformity in regulations 

 relating to nvirsery insi)ection l)y either the passage of a Federal law or the 

 charging of the Bureau of Entomology with the duty of inducing cooperative 

 iniiformity in the laws of the several States. 



W. D. Hunter, Chairnutn. 

 L. O. Howard. 

 W. E. Hinds. 

 E. D. Sanderson. 

 H. A. Morgan. 



On motion, the report of the committee was adopted. The chair 

 called for nominations for the five members of the committe jjro- 

 vided for in the above resolution. The following were nominated, 

 and on motion the nominations were declared closed and the secretary 

 was instructed to cast the ballot of the society for the members 

 named : Messrs. A. L. Quaintance, W. E. Hinds, W. D. Hunter, C. L. 

 Marlatt, and H. Osborn. 



