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that occasion to visit the infested territory and inspect the 

 work on this insect. At a session held after this visit a 

 committee was appointed to prepare a resolution expressive 

 of the opinion of the members of the association regarding 

 this work. The resolution is as follows : — 



Resolved, That, the work of the gypsy moth committee in the 

 State of Massachusetts having been inspected in all its details by 

 a large number of the members of this association, and its methods 

 of operation observed, it is our opinion that too much praise can 

 not be bestowed upon those who are carrying out this important 

 work. We consider that they have adopted the best methods yet 

 devised for controlling the spread and ultimately exterminating 

 this destructive insect; that their work, on the whole, has been 

 remarkably successful, when the extensive area to be gone over 

 and the insufficient or retarded appropriations are considered ; and 

 that thene is every prospect of the accomplishment of the object of 

 the committee, — the absolute extermination of the insect in the 

 State of Massachusetts, — provided that funds sufficient for the 

 purpose are placed at their disposal. 



We consider that a stoppage of their work, or any serious re- 

 duction of it, would involve not only the loss of all that has been 

 already accomplished, but would also permit this destructive insect 

 to ravage the State and eventually spread over a large part of the 

 Union, and cause an incalculable amount of injury to the whole 

 communitj 7 . 



We trust that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will continue 

 to make early and ample provision for carrying on this work in a 

 thorough manner for a few years longer, when we expect that the 

 insect will have been brought under such control that a more lim- 

 ited expenditure will be sufficient. 



Charles J. S. Bethune,* 

 Herbert OsBORN,f 



John B. Smith, J 



Committee. 



Resolutions of a similar nature were adopted by this 

 association at its meeting in Springfield, Mass., in 1895, in 

 Buffalo, N. Y., in 1896, and again in Detroit, Mich., in 1897, 

 and were published in its proceedings and also in reports 

 of the gypsy moth committee. 



* Rev. Dr. Bethune, Editor of the " Canadian Entomologist." 

 t Dr. Osborn, Professor of Zoology and Entomology in the Ohio State University. 

 X Dr. Smith, Professor of Entomology in Rutgers College, and State Entomolo- 

 gist of New Jersey. 



