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strongly sensational novelette they would 

 not get a much more general reading. 

 Personally I cannot adopt the plan, as I 

 have no skill as a novelist. 



After all, it is more important to investi- 

 gate and make new and valuable discov- 

 eries, even if they are not so widely read at 

 first, for they will be taken up by others and 

 disseminated far and wide, and in time the 

 useful information will become filtered 

 through the public mind. 



There is often need of legislation to aid 

 in the carrying out of the recommendations 

 of the economic entomologists, and this is 

 an important question at the present time. 

 There is no law in Massachusetts to prevent 

 a nurseryman or any one else from selling 

 and distributing nursery stock that is in- 

 fested with the San Jose scale, or of distrib- 

 uting and establishing colonies of injurious 

 insects, except the gypsy moth, nor is there, 

 so far as I know, any law in the land to 

 prevent the importation of injurious insects 

 from any other country. 



I have generally felt very shy of legal en- 

 actments, because they are so often couched 

 in language quite beyond my comprehen- 

 sion, and in many cases they seem to re- 

 quire a ' Philadelphia lawyer ' to interpret 

 them, and even then two lawyers frequently 

 difier in their interpretation of the same 

 legal point. I am, therefore, of the opinion 

 that there is need of great clearness and 

 simplicity in the wording of an act, and also 

 that it would be wise to have more or less 

 uniform laws in all the States concerning 

 those injurious insects which are, or are lia- 

 ble to be, generally distributed throughout 

 the country. In this matter we should also 

 ■consider our nearest neighbors, Canada and 

 Mexico, for, while politically distinct from 

 us, entomologically there is no dividing line. 



In conclusion, allow me to congratulate 

 you on the growth, importance and success 

 of the Association, and bid each and every 

 member Godspeed in his chosen field of 



labor, assuring him that every good piece of 

 work he may perform will not only redound 

 to his credit, but will add to the sum-total 

 of human knowledge and human happiness. 



C. H. Fernald. 



EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING, BUFFALO, N. Y., 



AUGUST 2 1-S2, 1896. 



The Association was convened in the 

 lecture hall of the Library Building, Buffalo, 

 ]Sr. Y., and its meetings were attended by 

 some 19 active members, including the fol- 

 lowing officers: President, C. H. Fernald; 

 Vice-President, F. M. "Webster, and Secre- 

 tary, C. L. Marlatt. A number of ento- 

 mologists not members of the Association 

 were also present, with other zoologists, the 

 number of persons present at the meetings 

 averaging about 30. 



The following new active members were 

 elected : 



W. G. Johnson, College Station, Md. 



E. E. Bogue, Stillwater, Okla. Ter. 



James S. Hine, Wooster, Ohio. 



C. W. Mally, Wooster, Ohio. 



H. L. Frost, Boston, Mass. 



M. F. Adams, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Lewis Collins, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



W. E. Kumsey, Morgantown, W. Va. 



The following new foreign members were 

 elected : 



Chas. P. Lounsbury, Department of Agriculture, 

 Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. 



Fred. Enock, 21 Manor Gardens, Holloway, Lon- 

 don, England. 



Dr. Enzio Renter, Fredriksgatan 45, Helsingfors, 

 Finland, Russia. 



Frederick B. Theobald, Wyecourt, Kent County, 

 England. 



Dr. Antonio Berlese, R. Scuola Superiore de Agri- 

 coltura, Portici, Italy. 



Dr. Paul Marchal, 16 Rue Claude Bernard, Paris, 

 France. 



W. C. Grasby, Parkside, Adelaide, South Australia. 



The active membership of the Associa- 

 tion now numbers 86, and includes practi- 

 cally all of the leading workers in economic 

 entomology in the United States and Can- 

 ada. The foreign membership numbers 



