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Albion, 111.; Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt and Miss Augusta Murtfeldt, St. Louis, Mo.; 

 W. W. Norman ; Prof. Herbert Osborn and L. H. Pammel, Ames, Iowa; R. S. F. 

 Perry ; C. Robertson, Carlingville, Ind.; Prof. J. W. Spencer, Athens, Ga.; James 

 Troop and Prof. F. M. Webster, Lafayette, Ind.; Dr. Clarence M. Weed, Columbus, 

 Ohio, and others. 



THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



The President, Prof. A. J. Cook, delivered the following address on teaching 

 entomology : 



Ladies and Gentlemen of the Entomological Club. — I congratulate you 

 that another year has passed, and our number has not been broken in upon by 

 death. While our ranks have been much enlarged, no one has been called to that 

 undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns. I also congratu- 

 late you upon the great increment in our force of working entomologists. I think 

 I may say, with no fear of contradiction, that no year in the history of America 

 has been so remarkable in this respect as has the last. This is a cause for special 

 felicitation, not only to entomologists, but to all our people. Ours is a tremendous 

 country — by ours I include, of course, our Canadian brothers, for we, as scientists, 

 know no line of separation — and to spy out the entire land needs an army of 

 workers or observers, all trained to keen sight and ready apprehension. But 

 more than this the magnitude of our country is fully equalled by the magnitude of 

 the insect hosts, and to know all of these, with their full life history, res:][uires an 

 incalculable amount of closest research. But our business economy demands this 

 for all our species : for so wonderful is the balance of nature, so close the relations 

 of all species of life, that really we may hardly divide insects into those important 

 and those unimportant in our agricultural economy. All are important ; and so 

 from an economic, no less than a scientific standpoint, it is desirable that all such 

 research be widely encouraged, and it is a most hopeful omen — the rapid increase 

 of earnest and trained workers. I shall not in this address occupy time by giving 

 the peculiarities of the season in respect to insects, nor yet call attention to inte- 

 resting discoveries, like the importation of the Vedalia cardinalis, All these 

 will be brought out in papers and discussions. I must, however, refer to the new 

 association for the advancement of economic entomology, which was organized at 

 Toronto a year ago, and which held its first meeting at Washington last Novem- 

 ber. This meeting, under the Presidency of Dr. Riley, was a valuable one ; and 

 that society promises much for the science of entomology, as well as for its 

 economic development. It is also a matter of much interest that a new paper — 

 Insect News is started at that great centre of entomology — Philadelphia — which 

 will also do much every way for our science. This, with the very excellent 

 periodical Insect Life, published by the Entomological Division of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, can but give new impetus to entomological research. In 

 addition to these, we have an addition to Prof. Comstock's admirable work, which 

 when completed will form a most valuable adjunct in the development of ento- 

 mology. If we may judge from what we already have, this will be invaluable in 

 every entomological laboratory. When the Society of Economic Entomologists 

 was organized a year ago it was remarked by one of our first entomologists that 

 that move sounded the death-knell of this Club. I then remarked that such 

 ought not to be the case. That Society is to be composed oply of those interested 

 in economic entomology, and of course will only put emphasis in the direction of 

 the practical aspects of the science ; this more or less of entomologists in a wider 

 ^sense, and so will include those interested in practical entomology and also in 



