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When insect injuiy touches the pockets of the producers to that extent 

 they are going to look around for the men who are looking after the 

 bugs. It means money to them. He had been in. consultation with 

 some of the high officials of one of our principal railroads, and felt 

 certain that the day is not far distant when these roads will employ 

 men to take up the entomological study and development of the territory 

 through which their lines run. He considered this an important point 

 for the student of entomology to bear in mind in the future. Of 

 course such a man must go out and study conditions over a vast area. 

 He must also know what our worthy chairman is doing in Colorado; 

 what Mr. Weed is doing in New Hampshire; what Mr. Lounsbury is 

 doing in South Africa; what Mr. Fletcher is doing in Canada — in short, 

 he must keep posted on the entomology of the whole world and be 

 ready to meet any emergency. 



Mr. Hopkins said that along this same line he might mention the 

 fact that he found in the spruce forests of Maine that a large timber 

 concern controlling some 300,000 acres employed a practical forester 

 and scientific man, and paid him about $1,500 a year, to give advice 

 on practical methods of cutting timber and making surveys. The con- 

 cern mentioned sent this man with Mr. Hopkins through the spruce 

 forests of Maine to learn all he could about forest insects. This was 

 another evidence of the fact that the practical men are beginning to 

 realize that they can ver}'^ profitably utilize the results of scientific 

 research. 



Mr. Kirkland said that if the members of the Association knew the 

 circumstances under which the presidential address was prepared they 

 would appreciate it all the more. Mr. Bruner decided at a rather late 

 date that he would ])e unable to ])e present, and Mr. Gillette very 

 kindly consented, on short notice, to write an address. It was a matter 

 of congratulation to the members of the Association that they have in 

 their membership one who was both willing and able to do so good a 

 piece of work at such short notice. 



Two papers were presented by Mr. Weed, as follows: 



ON THE OVIPOSITION OF AN EGG PARASITE OF VANESSA 



ANTIOPA. 



By Clarence M. Weed, Durham, N. H. 



[Abstract.] 



One May morning at Durham, N. H., a Vanessa ant iopa was seen 

 ovipositing on Salix. After laying about twenty eggs she flew away. 

 The moment she left, a small hymenopteron — since identified by Dr. 

 L. O. Howard as Tdenonius grapke Howard — was seen running over 



