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host of connections existing between zoolog- 

 ical knowledge and agricultural practise. IsTot 

 a single farm product but is affected directly 

 or indirectly by some animal activity and 

 tbe extent of miutilized zoology available is 

 perhaps equalled only by the ignorance and 

 indifference of a large part of the population 

 most in need of accurate and intelligible in- 

 formation. 



Some twenty years ago I took occasion to 

 say in an address before the Association of 

 Economic Entomologists that 



The problem or how to reach with the facts we 

 have gathered the people for whom we work is one 

 of the most difficult to solve. . . . No matter how 

 carefully we experiment, how accurate and useful 

 our results, we must place these results before a 

 public uneducated in the details of our science. 



The situation there referred to, though no 

 doubt improved, is in some degree true to-day, 

 but for a large part of the gain I believe we 

 must credit the various extension agencies 

 which have been developing in recent years. 



Possibly some measure of this gain may be 

 found in the enormous growth of the use of 

 insecticides for the control of certain farm 

 and orchard pests. 



CONCLUSION 



Finally then, in sum, I think we may say 

 in confidence that zoology with its centuries 

 of development stands as a great achievement 

 of human thought and study; that it offers 

 "vmlimited opportunity for further research 

 And growth and that its aims and opportuni- 

 ties deserve the most ardent effort of its 

 devotees. 



Here at the most conspicuous milestone per- 

 haps ever erected in the progress of the 

 human race the passing generation of zool- 

 ogists may hand on to the coming workers not 

 only the product of generations of effort but 

 the priceless opportunity of unsolved problems, 

 the gift of possible achievements for many 

 generations to come. 



I appreciate that this is not a valedictory 

 or an address to a graduating class and I beg 

 pardon if I overstep the proprieties of the 



occasion, but the conditions of the day have 

 impelled such appraisement of the situation 

 and the occasional taking account of stock is 

 perhaps at times a most necessary and prof- 

 itable step in our undertakings. 



I realize that there are many here present 

 whose range of study and point of view must 

 enable them to see with wider horizon and 

 clearer vision the great domain, small tracts 

 of which it is our individual function to 

 cultivate, but I trust I may have your unan- 

 imous agrement to the sentiment that these 

 various activities, so hurriedly sketched, so 

 inadequately presented, are worthy of our 

 most enthusiastic endeavor, our most loyal de- 

 votion and cooperation. 



Herbert Osborn 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR 



THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



AND SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION 



The revised constitution of the American 

 Association, presented at the Baltimore Meet- 

 ing for adoption at the St. Louis Meeting, 

 contains the following articles : 



ARTICLE 6. DIVISIONS AND BRANCHES 



Regional Divisions and Local Branches of the 

 association may be formed by vote of the council. 

 iSueh divisions and branches may elect officers, hold 

 meetings, appoint committees, enter into relations 

 with other societies, and promote within their fields 

 the objects of the association. 



ARTICLE 7. ASSOCIATED AND AFFILIATED SOCIETIES 



National and local scientific societies may, by 

 vote of the council, become associated with the asso- 

 ciation. Those associated societies which the coun- 

 cil shall designate as affiliated societies are repre- 

 sented on the council and on the sectional commit- 

 tees as provided in articles 4 and 5. 



These articles state the policy of the asso- 

 ciation as framed by the council in recent 

 years. All the national scientific societies, 

 including the great engineering societies and 

 the American Medical Association, are now 

 affiliated with the association and represented 

 on its council. A Pacific Division has been 

 formed which serves as a center for the scien- 



