ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, 



Philadelphia, Pa., Febuary, 191 9. 



Entomology at the Convocation Week Meetings. 

 When arrangements were first made in the Autumn of 1918 

 for the meetings of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and AffiHated Societies at Baltimore, Decem- 

 ber 2^ to 28, 19 18, wartime conditions were such as to lead to 

 positive discouragement of any large attendance. With the 

 signing of the armistice, an increased interest was manifested 

 and several societies, which had decided to hold no sessions, 

 arranged scientific programs. Nevertheless the annual pro- 

 gram of the seventy-first meeting of the A. A. A. S. and of 

 the meetings of other societies is a slim pamphlet of. but forty- 

 four pages in comparison with those of recent years. The 

 number of papers, which can be called entomological in any 

 sense, listed therein is but 64. and is much smaller than for 

 many years. Fifty-two of these appear on the program of the 

 American Association of Economic Entomologists, including 

 the Apicultural and Horticultural Inspection Sections, 6 on 

 the joint program of Section F, Zoology, of the A. A. A. S., 

 and the American Society of Zoologists, 2 each on those of 

 the American Society of Naturalists and of the Ecological So- 

 ciety of America, i each on those of Section I, Social and 

 Economic Science, A. A. A. S., and the School Garden Asso- 

 ciation. 



The presidential address before the Economic Entomol- 

 ogists, by Dr. E. D. Ball, was on "Economic Entomology, — 

 Its Foundation and Future." Prof. Herbert Osborn, as retir- 

 ing Mce-President of Section F, spoke on "Zoological Aims 

 and Values." Dr. L. O. Howard gave a paper at the confer- 



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