JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



FEBRUARY, 1915 



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The Philadelphia meeting has become histoiy. Those privileged to 

 attend can hardly class the gathering as other than one of the most 

 pleasant and profitable. The program was full but not so overcrowded 

 that discussion was impractical and we have yet to learn of serious 

 conflicts between the meetings of closely allied societies. Material 

 progress was made with the Index of Economic Entomology. The 

 plan has been carefully outlined and compilation has alreadj^ started. 

 There was a large increase in the membership and the finances of the 

 Journal have been put upon more substantial basis. These are all 

 creditable achievements and continuations of earlier adopted policies. 



The design for an official seal for the Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists should receive careful consideration, and, as mentioned in the 

 report of the Executive Committee, suggestions are desired by those 

 with whom the final decision must lie. Melanoplus spretus has been 

 suggested as particularly well qualified to occupy a prominent place 

 on the seal. Its claims to this distinction ma}^ be briefly stated as fol- 

 lows: It is an important insect pest and its activities in earlier years 

 resulted in the organization of the United States Entomological Com- 

 mission — a pioneer in the exhaustive and fruitful studies so character- 

 istic of the present day. The ravages of this insect raised the public 

 estimation of applied or economic entomolog}^ from a tolerated and 

 presumably somewhat beneficial calling to one of great practical im- 

 portance — a rating abundantly justified in the developments of later 

 years and attested by the present wonderfully efficient Federal Bu- 

 reau of Entomology with its extended ramifications and the numerous 

 state agencies employing skilled scientists in the study of insect 



