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ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 
OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS. 
MORNING SESSION, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1899. 
The Association met in room 4, Biological Hall, Ohio State Univer. 
sity, Columbus, Ohio, at 10 a. m., August 18, 1899. 
The following members were in Plnaanes at the sessions: 
President C. L. Marlatt, Washington, D. C.; Secretary A. H. Kirk- 
land, Malden, Mass.; EH. P. Felt, Albany, N. Y.; E. H.-Forbush, Mal- 
den, Mass.; A. D. Hopkins, Morgantown, W. Va.; L. O. Howard, 
Washington, D. C.; W.G. Johnson, College Park, Md.; C. W. Mally, 
Wooster, Ohio; Herbert Osborn, Columbus, Ohio; R. H. Pettit, Agri- 
cultural College, Mich.; A. L. Quaintance, Experiment, Ga.; F. W. 
Rane, Durham, N. H.; William Saunders, Ottawa, Canada; W. M. 
Scott, Atlanta, Ga.; F. M. Webster, Wooster, Ohio. 
The average attendance was increased to about twenty-five by the 
presence of a number of visitors, prominent among whom were: 
Dr. W. J. Beal, Agricultural College, Mich.; Prof. L. C. Corbett, 
Morgantown, W. vee Dr. W. H. Hale, Sania saa NYS Dre aD: 
Halstead, New Feareeick NS Jes erOr VV. A ieNernan! Columbus, 
Ohio; Prof. W. R. Lazenby, Columbus, Ohio; Mr. R. C. Osburn, Colum- 
bus, Ohio, and others. 
After calling the Association to order, the President delivered the 
annual address, which follows: 
THE LAISSER-FAIRE PHILOSOPHY APPLIED TO THE INSECT 
PROBLEM. 
By C. L. Maruattr, Washington, D. C. 
The last few years have given practical demonstration of the possi- 
bilities in applied entomology, and the subject is now being put toa 
more general and thorough test perhaps than ever before. The incit- 
ing cause has been, and is, the San Jose scale, which has aroused the 
interest and attention not only of entomologists, but of the general 
public throughout the world, more than any other insect problem 
which has arisen since the pecinnane of history. Never before have 
fears been created over so much of the earth’s surface about a single 
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