THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 

 OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



MORNING SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1906. 



The Association met in Gibson Hall of the Tulane University, 

 New Orleans, La., on January 1 to 4, 1906. The following members 

 were in attendance at the several sessions: 



C. F. Adams, Fayetteville, Ark. ; W. E. Britton, New Haven, Conn. ; A. F. 

 Burgess, Columbus, Ohio ; R. S. Clifton, Washington, D. C. ; A. F. Conradi, 

 College Station, Tex. ; Mel. T. Cook, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba ; E. C. Cotton, 

 Columbus, Ohio ; J. C. Crawford, Dallas, Tex. ; C. W. Flynn, Baton Rouge, La. ; 

 S. A. Forbes, Urbana, 111. ; J. B, Garrett, Baton Rouge, La. ; E. S. Hardy, 

 Shreveport, La. ; W. E. Hinds, Washington, D. C. ; L. O. Howard, Washington, 

 D. C. ; W. D. Hunter, Washington, D. C. ; C. R. Jones, Dallas, Tex. ; R. S. 

 Mackintosh, Auburn, Ala. ; C. L. Marlatt, Washington, D. C. ; W. O. Martin, 

 Shreveport, La. ; H. A. Morgan, Knoxville, Tenn. ; A. W. Morrill, Washington, 

 D. C. ; Wilmon Newell, Shreveport, La. ; J. F. Nicholson, Stillwater, Okla. ; 

 Herbert Osborn, Columbus, Ohio ; A. L. Quaintance, Washington, D. C. ; C. E. 

 Sanborn, College Station, Tex. ; E. Dwight Sanderson, Durham, N. H. ; E. A. 

 Schwarz, Washington, D. C. ; R. I. Smith, Atlanta, Ga. ; II. E. Summers, Ames, 

 Iowa ; T. B. Symons, College Park, Md. ; F. L. Washburn, St. Anthony Park, 

 Minn. ; F. M. Webster, Washington, D. C. 



In the absence of the president and the first vice-president the 

 meeting was called to order at 10 a. m. by the second vice-president, 

 Mr. F. L. Washburn. The secretary read the annual address of the 

 president, as follows: 



THE SCOPE AND STATUS OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 



By H. Garman, Lexington, Ky. 



Science in all its aspects, when applied to human affairs, has of 

 late been accorded much more consideration and its devotees more 

 respect than formerly. Economic entomology with the rest has 

 received its share of recognition as a branch of science worthy of the 

 close attention of sensible men. Yet it was not so long ago when we 

 heard much of the pure science of entomology as contrasted with its 

 applied science, as if the two were completely independent of each 

 other; and somehow it was imagined that entomology not applied 

 was a more exalted field of study than entomology made to serve our 

 own wants ; the man engaged simply in the study of the science itself, 



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