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Tho committee on membership submitted the following recom- 

 mendations : 



For active members: Mr. George H. French, Carbondale. 111.; Mr. P. J. Parrott. 

 Geneva, N. Y.; Mr. A. W. Morrill. Victoria, Tex. 



To he changed from associate to active members: Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt, 

 Kirkwood, Mo.: Mr. F. H. Snow, Lawrence, Kans.; Mr. T. B. Symons, College- 

 park, Md. 



For associate members: Mr. Otto H. Swezey, Columbus, Ohio; Mr. S. A. John- 

 son, Fort Collins, Colo.; Mr. F. C. Bishopp, Collegepark, Md.; Mr. Douglas B. 

 Young, Albany, N. Y.; Mr. E. C. Green, College Station, Tex.; Mr. E. P.Taylor, 

 Champaign, 111. 



The committee further recommend the adoption of the by-law relative to mem- 

 bership, which was presented at the meeting at Pittsburg in June, 1902. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Herbert Osborn, Chairman. 

 F. M. Webster. 

 E. P. Felt. 



By vote of the Association the list of names presented for member- 

 ship was accepted as reported by the committee. 

 The by-law referred to in the report is as follows: 



It shall be the duty of the officers of the Association, each year previous to the 

 annual meeting, to carefully examine the list of members and recommend to the 

 Association the dropping of such names as have in their opinion no further place 

 upon our roll, such recommendations to be acted upon by the Association, and a 

 vote of two-thirds of the members present to be sufficient to drop any name. 



That in the interpretation of the paragraph of the constitution regarding the 

 election of new members it be understood that an ' ' economic entomologist " ' is a 

 person who has been trained in entomological work and whose known work or 

 published papers show him to be capable of conducting original work in economic 

 entomology. 



That the term "practical entomologist,*' referring to associate members, be 

 held to indicate persons who have done general work in entomology and who 

 have, by published papers or otherwise, given evidence of their attainments in 

 such work. 



That associate members be listed separately in the published roll, or the fact 

 that they are associate members be indicated in the list. 



After some discussion it was voted to adopt the first paragraph of 

 the suggested by-law, and the remaining paragraphs were laid on the 

 table until the next annual meeting. 



Mr. Sanderson next read a paper entitled — 



INSECTS OF 1903 IN TEXAS. 



By E. Dwight Sanderson, College Station, Tex. 



Entomological problems in Texas are many and varied. Many 

 pests are brought to our attention which have been comparatively 

 unknown to entomological records heretofore. 



