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The society then adjourned to reassemble at 10 o'clock Saturday 

 morning. 



MORNING SESSION, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1902. 



After calling the meeting to order, the president announced that 

 6rst on the programme were three papers by Mr. Maria tt: 



RESUME OF THE SEARCH FOR THE NATIVE HOME OF THE SAN 

 JOSE SCALE IN JAPAN AND CHINA. 



By C. L. Mablatt, Washington, I). C. 



A preliminary report was read before the last meeting of this Asso- 

 ciation detailing the results of a three months'" investigation by the 

 writer of the San Jose scale in central and southern Japan. The 

 present report relates to the investigations in Japan subsequent to 

 July 1. 1901, and the explorations in the autumn of the same year in 

 China. This report is merely a brief summary and is preliminary to 

 an extended account of the trip which will appear elsewhere. 



In the discussion which followed the reading by Dr. Howard of the 

 writer's preliminary paper in Denver last year, a misapprehension as 

 to the extent and thoroughness of the investigation was evident on the 

 part of several speakers who seemed to feel that the work had been 

 done chiefly along the railroads, and that, therefore, the interior of 

 Japan was not being explored: and further, that this interior region, 

 if carefully investigated, might throw an entirely different light on 

 the subject and perhaps would demonstrate that the interior and the 

 more inaccessible regions of Japan were the ones from which the 

 San Jose scale had come and in which it is native. Some of the 

 speakers, notably Dr. Howard, felt sure that no opportunities for 

 investigation or localities would be neglected by the writer, but sev- 

 eral of the speakers took readily to the suggestion that the exploration 

 of the interior, away from fhe railroad lines, which it was supposed 

 had not been made, would be very desirable. The fact apparently 

 was overlooked by all of those taking this view that railroads are a 

 modern institution in Japan, and that instead of tin 1 older settlements 

 following the lines of such roads in Japan, this is purely accidental. 

 In point of fact the railroads strike through the country over the most 

 available routes and often plunge through the heart of interior Japan, 

 traversing the mountain wilds as well as the cultivated vulleys, and 

 are more apt to reach out-of-the-way districts than the older highways 

 and roads. Furthermore, many of these lines have only just been 

 completed, and in my trip southward the line which now runs from 



April, May. ami June, 1901. 

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