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''We knovr tbat the committee of the experiment stations must 

 meet, if the directors of stations order it; but I feel contident that the 

 necessarily limited number of entomologists in that committee, even if 

 every station eventually employs such an officer, cannot do such good 

 work for the science and give them equal opportunities with those offered 

 by an organization of the nature of the Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists, which will include many eminent men who are excluded from 

 active membership by the rales of the committee. I refer to such men 

 as Professor Eiley and his assistants, Dr. Packard, Mr. French, Dr. 

 Lintner, and hosts of other economic entomologists in the United 

 States, as well as the Canadian entomologists, and many others who 

 would be pleased to join in various parts of the world. I submit to 

 the meeting that there is room for good work from both of these organ- 

 izations, and that it would be extremely ill-advised to let either of them 

 drop to the ground, for each should be of the greatest assistance to the 

 other. I believe, too, that to no one can the association be of more 

 use than to the experiment station entomologists ; and therefore they 

 should make every effort to sustain an association at the meeting of 

 which they must always have greater freedom than they can have in 

 the committee, where the proceedings will always be subject to a certain 

 degree of restraint, both as to the time allowed for discussion and the 

 subjects brought forward. The entomological committee is specially 

 a meeting of the entomologists of the experiment stations, and any 

 one else will always to a certain extent feel himself an outsider, no 

 matter how cordially the hand of friendship may be extended to him. 

 The president has stated that he does not care where the work is done 

 so that it is carried on vigorously. This is probably the case, and the 

 gentlemen I have mentioned have very little to learn from the meeting 

 compared with the advantages which will accrue to us from having such 

 men i^resent at the meetings. I cannot help thinking that we shall 

 make a serious mistake if we allow an organization to drop which will 

 insure ns their sympathy, attendance, and services, and will at the same 

 time form a bond of union between the economic entomologists of the 

 whole world." 



Mr. Smith thought it an absurdity that there should be two bodies 

 composed of nearly the same members, meeting on the same days, at 

 the same place, and covering the same ground. He strongly advocated 

 an effort to gain in the committee of the main association all those ad- 

 vantages that the present association offered, and suggested that this 

 would be of advantage to station workers at least, as it gave them a 

 recognized place in the official body of agricultural colleges and experi- 

 ment stations. 



Mr. Weed thought the status of some of the men had been misunder- 

 stood. The Canadian station was represented in the main body, and 

 its various officers have the same rights and standing in committees as 

 have those of the other stations. The Department of Agriculture is 

 equally represented both in the main body and in the committees. 



