February, '15] 



ENTOMOLOGISTS' PROCEEDINGS 



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Peesident H. T. Fernald : We will now listen to the Committee 

 on Bibliography by E. P. Felt. 



REPORT OF THE COIVIMITTEE ON THE PUBLICATION' OF THE 

 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



Although the Committee was authorized by vu'tue of the action taken at the last 

 meeting, to proceed with the preparation and publication of this bibhography, it was 

 deemed wise to submit the project to the Federal authorities in a more formal manner. 

 After some prehminary correspondence and investigation, a communication empha- 

 sizing the usefulness of the bibhography, outlining a plan for its preparation and 

 strongly urging its issuance by the United States Department of Agriculture was 

 forwarded to Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, who kindly 

 transmitted it together with a recommendation that the plan as outhned by your 

 Committee be adopted, to Dr. WiUiam A. Tajdor, Chairman of the Committee on 

 Pubhcations of the Department of Agriculture. This latter Committee, under date 

 of November 20 last, went on record as being fully impressed with the usefulness of 

 this pubhcation to working entomologists and as of the opinion that it should be 

 pubhshed, but in view of the precedent which would be estabhshed by the resumption 

 of its pubhcation, could not recommend that it be pubhshed by the Department and 

 the Committee therefore respectfully recommended that it be not approved for 

 publication. 



Your Coi;imittee, after consultation with Mr. Nathan Banks of the Federal Bureau 

 of Entomology, recommends that this work take the form of an index of American 

 literature for the decade ending with this year. A comprehensive and detailed plan 

 has been adopted. It is estimated that the index will make a publication of from 

 100 to 125 pages which can be sold at approximately two dollars a copy. 



Dr. L. O. Howard has kindly agreed to detail a man for the compilation of the 

 index, and under the conditions obtaining, your Committee recommends that the 

 preparation of the work be begun at once, and in the event of its being impossible 

 to find any other satisfactory publishing agency, that the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists issue the index in accordance with the plan outlined in the 

 report which was submitted and favorably acted upon at the Atlanta meeting. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. P. Felt, 

 W. D. Hinds, 

 W. C. O'Kane, 

 W. E. Britton, 

 A. F. Burgess, 



Committee. 



Mr. E. p. Felt: I want to state that it has taken nearly a year 

 to exhaust every reasonable resource to secure the Publication of the 

 Bibliography by the United States Department of Agriculture. The 

 vote taken at the last meeting provided that if other means could not 

 be found for publishing the Bibliography that it be undertaken by the 

 Association and the report that has just been presented, commits the 

 Association to publish the Bibliography in case no other means of 

 publication can be secured. 



