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The following new active members were proposed and elected: 



Mr. W. G. Johnson, Agricultural College, College Station, Md. Proposed by Mr. 

 Marlatt. 



Mr. E. E. Bogue, Agricultural Experiment Station, Stillwater, Okla. Proposed by 

 Mr. Howard. 



Mr. James S. Hine, Wooster, Ohio. Proposed by Mr. Webster. 



Mr. C. W. Mally, Wooster, Ohio. Proposed by Mr. Webster. 



Mr. H. L. Frost, Boston, Mass. Proposed by Mr. Kirklaml. 



On motion of Mr. Howard, it was ordered that a joint meeting be 

 arranged between the Association of Economic Entomologists and the 

 Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science for the reading or 

 presentation of papers which would be of interest to both societies. 

 Messrs. Howard and Bethune were appointed a committee to arrange 

 such joint meeting. 



On motion of Mr. Smith, the president and secretary were consti- 

 tuted a committee on programme. 



Mr. Howard then read the first paper, entitled : 



SOME TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON HOUSEHOLD INSECTS. 



By L. 0. Howard, Washington, I). C. 



There has been a rapid increase in the number of cold-storage plants 

 in large cities during the last few years, and there has been a corre- 

 sponding development in the uses to which they have been put. A 

 department which has grown to quite extensive proportions is the cold 

 storage of furs, rugs, and valuable woolen goods generally during the 

 summer months to prevent the work of the larvje of clothes moths 

 and clothes beetles and allied insects. 



That a certain degree of cold would result in inactivity on the part 

 of these insects was a foregone conclusion, and as a result of the gen- 

 eral understanding to this effect the first advertisements of cold-storage 

 firms for furs and rugs met with an immediate response from the wealthier 

 inhabitants of our larger cities. The first trials proving satisfactory, 

 the custom continued and grew until at present it is recognized as by 

 far the safest method of keeping such property during the heated 

 mouths, and until it has become one of the principal sources of revenue 

 of many cold-storage companies and practically the sole source of 

 revenue of many others. So satisfactory has it proved that the writer, 

 in addressing the Washington Club (an organization composed entirely 

 of wealthy or well-to-do women) last winter, did not consider it worth 

 while to mention any other remedy against clothes moths. Had he, 

 however, been addressing an audience of housekeepers to whom a small 

 sum of money would be an object, other remedies would have been 

 mentioned. 



As a matter of course the expense of this process to the owners of 

 furs and woolen goods is necessitated by the expense of operating the 



