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When insect injury touches the pockets of the producers to that extent 
they are going to look around for the men who are looking after the 
bugs. It means money to them. He had been in consultation with 
some of the high officials of one of our principal railroads, and felt 
certain that the day is not far distant when these roads will employ. 
men to take upthe entomological study and development of the territory 
through which their lines run. He considered this an important point 
for the student of entomology to bear in mind in the future. Of 
course such a man must go out and study conditions over a vast area. 
He must also know what our worthy chairman is doing in Colorado; 
what Mr. Weed is doing in New Hampshire; what Mr. Lounsbury is 
doing in South Africa; what Mr. Fletcher is doing in Canada—in short, 
he must keep posted on the entomology of the whole world and be 
ready to meet any emergency. 
Mr. Hopkins said that along this same line he might mention the 
fact that he found in the spruce forests of Maine that a large timber 
concern controlling some 300,000 acres employed a practical forester 
and scientific man, and paid him about $1,500 a year, to give advice 
on practical methods of cutting timber and making surveys. Thecon- 
cern mentioned sent this man with Mr. Hopkins through the spruce 
forests of Maine to learn all he could about forest insects. This was 
another evidence of the fact that the practical men are beginning to 
realize that they can very profitably utilize the results of scientific 
research. 
Mr. Kirkland said that if the members of the Association knew the 
circumstances under which the presidential address was prepared they 
would appreciate it all the more. Mr. Bruner decided at a rather late 
date that he would be unable to be present, and Mr. Gillette very 
kindly consented, on short notice, to write an address. It wasa matter 
of congratulation to the members of the Association that they have in 
their membership one who was both willing and able to do so good a 
piece of work at such short notice. 
Two papers were presented by Mr. Weed, as follows: 
ON THE OVIPOSITION OF AN EGG PARASITE OF VANESSA 
ANTIOPA. 
By CLARENCE M. WEED, Durham, N. H. 
[ Abstract. ] 
One May morning at Durham, N. H., a Vanessa antiopa was seen 
ovipositing on Salix. After laying about twenty eggs she flew away. 
The moment she left, a small hymenopteron—since identified by Dr. 
L. O. Howard as 7élenomus grapte Howard—was seen running over 
