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Albion, Ill.; Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt and Miss Augusta Murtfeldt, St. Louis, Mo.; 
W. W. Norman; Prof. Herbert Osborn and L. H. Pammel, Ames, Iowa; R. S. F. 
Perry ; C. Robertson, Carlingville, Ind.; Prof. J. W. Spencer, Athens, Ga.; James 
Troop and Prof. F. M. Webster, Lafayette, Ind.; Dr. Clarence M. Weed, Columbus, 
Ohio, and others. 
THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
The President, Prof. A. J. Cook, delivered the following address on teaching 
entomology : 
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Entomological Club.—I congratulate you 
that another year has passed, and our number has not been broken in upon by 
death. While our ranks have been much enlarged, no one has been called to that 
undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns. I also congratu- 
late you upon the great increment in our force of working entomologists. I think 
{ may say, with no fear of contradiction, that no year in the history of America 
has been so remarkable in this respect as has the last. This is a cause for special 
felicitation, not only to entomologists, but to all our people. Ours is a tremendous 
country—by ours I include, of course, our Canadian brothers, for we, as scientists, 
know no line of separation—and to spy out the entire land needs an army of 
workers or observers, all trained to keen sight and ready apprehension. But 
more than this the magnitude of our country is fully equalled by the magnitude of 
the insect hosts, and to know all of these, with their full life history, requires an 
incalculable amount of closest research. But our business economy demands this 
for all our species : for so wonderful is the balance of nature, so close the relations 
of all species of life, that really we may hardly divide insects into those important 
and those unimportant in our agricultural economy. All are important; and so 
from an economic, no less than a scientific standpoint, it is desirable that all such 
research be widely encouraged, and it is a most hopeful omen—the rapid increase 
of earnest and trained workers. I shall not in this address occupy time by giving 
the peculiarities of the season in respect to insects, nor yet call attention to inte- 
resting discoveries, like the importation of the Vedalia cardinalis, All these 
will be brought out in papers and discussions. I must, however, refer to the new 
association for the advancement of economic entomology, which was organized at 
Toronto a year ago, and which held its first meeting at Washington last Novem- 
ber. This meeting, under the Presidency of Dr. Riley, was a valuable one ; and 
that society promises much for the science of entomology, as well as for its 
economic development. It is also a matter of much interest that a new paper— 
Insect News is started at that great centre of entomology—Philadelphia—which 
will also do much every way for our science. This, with the very excellent 
periodical Insect Life, published by the Entomological Division of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, can but give new impetus to entomological research. In 
addition to these, we have an addition to Prof. Comstock’s admirable work, which 
when completed will form a most valuable adjunct in the development of ento- 
mology. If we may judge from what we already have, this will be invaluable in 
every entomological laboratory. When the Society of Economie Entomologists 
was organized a year ago it was remarked by one of our first entomologists that 
that move sounded the death-knell of this Club. I then remarked that such 
ought not to be the case. That Society is to be composed only of those interested 
in economic entomology, and of course will only put emphasis in the direction of 
the practical aspects of the science ; this more or less of entomologists in a wider 
sense, and so will include those interested in practical entomology and also in 
