FOURTH ANNUAL MEETINCx OF THE ASSOCIATION OF 

 ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



AUGUST 15— MORNING SESSION. 



The Association met at 10 a. m. in Room 14, University of Eochester, 

 Rochester, X. Y., August 15, 1802. The following officers and members 

 were present : 



President, J. A. Lintner, Albany, K. Y.; First Vice-president, S. A. 

 Forbes, Champaign, 111.; Secretary, F. M.Webster, Wooster, Ohio; C. 

 J. S. Bethuue, Port Hope, Ontario; James Fletcher, Ottawa, Canada; 

 L. O. Howard, Washington, D. C; D. S. Kellicott, Columbus, Ohio; 

 Herbert Osborn, Ames, Iowa; C. H. Perkins, Burlington, Vt.; C. V. 

 Riley, Washington, D. C. ; P. H. Rolfs, Lake City, Fla. ; M. V. Slinger- 

 land, Ithaca, N. Y. ; John B. Smith, New Brunswick, X. J. ; E. B. South- 

 wick, New York City; H. E. Weed, Agricultural College, Miss. 



In addition to these members, a number of visitors were present at 

 each session. On opening the session President Lintner made the fol- 

 lowing remarks : 



PRESIDENT'S OPENING ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen: It gives me i>leasure to welcome you to the fourth 

 annual meeting of our Association. Our preceding meetings have been 

 pleasant and profitable to all of our members who have been in attend- 

 ance, and I trust that this will prove equally so, and that its benefits 

 may go out to many who are not with us, and that it will tend to ad- 

 vance largely the interests of economic entomology — the science to 

 which most of us have consecrated our best energies and our lives, and 

 which, year by year, is demonstrating more clearly its ability to min- 

 ister to the comfort and well-being of our fellow-men and to the pro- 

 ductive wealth of our country. 



I am very glad that I can be with you at this time ; but, in consid- 

 eration of the great honor you have done me, in conferring upon me 

 the presidency of this Association, I deeply regret that I have not been 

 able to meet an important requirement of the office. It is made the 

 duty of the president to jiresent an annual address. A serious attack 

 of that atrocious disease, la grippe, which confined me to my house for 

 more than three months, followed by a longer period of convalescence, 

 extending up to the present, has prevented the preparation of an ad- 

 dress such as I would be willing should follow the very able ones to 



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