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Mr. Osboru explaiued that it was intended that the meeting of this 

 association shoahl be called a day or two before the meeting of the 

 association, the exact day aud time to be left to the committee, 



Mr. Smith called attention to the fact that we were about to get into 

 the same snarl we were in this year. The Association of Agricultural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations expected to meet at the same place 

 and time, and we would then have three clubs of the same members all 

 meeting at about the same time, two of them more or less in opposition. 

 It seemed to him that one strong body was much the best. 



Mr. Forbes stated that at last accounts the Association of Colleges 

 and Stations had voted not to go to Washington. Mr. Smith there 

 upon withdrew his objection, aud the motion was carried. 



Mr. Howard asked the present status of Mr. Lintner's amendment. 



Mr. Smith moved that in view of the practical separatiouof this body 

 from the official organization, Mr. Lintner's amendment be taken up 

 and passed. The motion was carried, and section 1 of the constitution 

 now reads as follows : 



Sec. 1. This associatiou shall be known as the Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists. 



Mr. Summers asked how this affects the standing of members. 



Mr. Smith read the provision of the constitution definiug member- 

 ship, and stated that the omission of the word ''official" from the title 

 changed the nature of the association so that there was no necessity 

 for the distinction between official aud nonofficial entomologists. 



Mr. Summers moved that section 3 of the constitution be amended to 

 read as follows : 



Sec. 3. The membership shall be confined to workers in economic entomology. All 

 economic entomologists employed by the general or State governments, or by the 

 State experiment stations, or by any agricultural or horticultural association, and 

 all teachers of economic entomology in educational institutes, may become members 

 of the association by transmitting the proper credentials to the secretary, aud by 

 authorizing him to sign their names to this constitution. Other persons engaged in 

 practical work in economic entomology may be elected by a two-thirds vote of the 

 members present at any regular meeting of the association. Members residing out 

 of the United States or Canada shall be designated foreign members. Foreign mem- 

 bers shall not be entitled to hold office or to vote. 



Under the law this amendment lies over until the next regular meet- 

 ing. 



Mr. Cook moved that a committee of three of the best men be ap- 

 pointed by the president to make arrangements for a program that 

 would rei)resent the entomologists before section F of the A. A. A. S. 



Mr. Smith seconded the motion, and suggested that Mr. Cook desig 

 iiate the committee to relieve the president from the task of selecting 

 the three best men. But he opposed the motion on the ground that 

 our association had absolutely no standing in the A. A. A. S., while 

 there did exist an encomological club of that association through whom, 

 if at all, such an arrangement should be made. He thought the officers 

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