Who eould not "when his summons comes * * * wrap the drapery 

 of his couch about him and lie down to pleasant dreams " if he could 

 know he had brought such a blessing to his countrymen as the intro- 

 duction of the Vedalia to the relief of disheartened fruit growers, or 

 if he had made possible the successful culture of so valuable an article 

 of food as the tig through the establishment of Blastopliagd gros^ormn 

 in American orchards, or if he were certain of having done anything 

 during his lifetime of service that would be a sure and perp«^tual 

 source of blessing to mankind? 



You will recall that Dr. Fernald, in his presidential address, put the 

 making of new discoveries first in importance in our work. In all 

 science and in every industry it is the new discoveries that make fur- 

 ther advance possible. They are the sure stepping-stones b\^ which 

 man ascends to greater heights and gets a broader view of the great 

 world in which he labors. There are thousands to make use of a good 

 thing when it has l)een discovered and made known to the world, but 

 there is scarcely more than one in a thousand who can claim the dis- 

 tinction of reallv making a new discovery by which succeeding genera- 

 tions become his debtors. 



Whether or not we have done all that might reasonably be expected 

 of us in this regard 1 will not attempt to assert. T do belie\'e we ha^'e 

 lived up to this clause of our constitution as well as any. From 

 infancy to old age, wherever a human being is found, it is as natural for 

 him to announce to his fellows a discovery of something new to him 

 in vision, in hearing, or in the realm of thought as it is for him to 

 defend his person from an unfriendly blow or to take food when 

 hungry. Galileo could no more refrain from telling the world that 

 the earth moves than he could help breathing into his lungs the free 

 air of heaven. Servetus, who first announced the continuous circula- 

 tion of the blood, was not checked in the least in his determination to 

 publish to the world what he believed he could demonstrate to be the 

 truth, though he was fully warned of his probable fate. 



All science is but a search after truth, and every fact established is 

 a signboard for the guidance of all others that come that way. 



It is no surprise, then, that many new discoveries have been made by 

 the members of this Association, and that they have been promptly 

 reported at these annual meetings or through station l)ulletins and 

 entomological magazines. 



The speaker believes it would be difficult to find so small a body of 

 workers, with so meager an amount of time to be devoted to original 

 research, in any other science, who can show larger results in the 

 way of new discoveries in so short a time. So, while we endeavor 

 to emphasize the importance of new discoveries, we believe there is 

 reason to congratulate ourselves upon past achievements. Let these 

 facts spur us on to greater endeavor, but let them not be to anyone a 

 cause for resting upon his laui-els. 



