JOURNAL 



OF 



ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFnCIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



Vol. 8 FEBRUARY, 1915 No. 1 



Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of the 

 American Association of Economic Entomologists 



The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the American Association 

 of Economic Entomologists was held at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Philadelphia, Pa., December 28 to 31, 1914. 



The meeting of the section on Apiary Inspection was held at 8 p. m., 

 December 28 and the sessions of the section on Horticultural Inspec- 

 tion convened at 8 p. m. December 29 at the Hotel Walton and at 

 10.30 a. m. December 30 at the L^niversity. 



The business proceedings of the Association are given in Part I of 

 this report and the addresses, papers and discussions will be found in 

 Part 11. 



The proceedings of the sections will be prepared by the section 

 secretaries and published as parts of this report. 



The meeting was the largest in the history of the Association, the 

 program was very interesting and all present joined in making it a 

 great success. 



PART I BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS 



The meeting was called to order by President H. T. Fernald at U30 

 p. m., Monday, December 28, 1914. 



Over 200 members and visitors attended the sessions, the average 

 attendance at each session being about 150. The following members 

 were present: 



A. J. Ackerman, Washington, D. C. 

 George G. Ainslie, Nashville, Tenn. 

 J. M. Aldrich, Lafayette, Ind. 

 I. L. Bailey, Northboro, Mass. 

 C. H. Baldwin, Indianapolis, Ind. 



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Nathan Banks, Washington, D. C. 

 G. G. Becker, Fayetteville, Ark. 

 Wm. BeutenmuUer, New York City. 

 F. C. Bishopp, Dallas, Texas. 

 M. W. Blackman, Syracuse, N. Y. 



