FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC 
ENTOMOLOGISTS. 
FIRST SESSION— A UG UST 14, 1893. 
The Association met at 2 o'clock p. m. in Eoom 24, Science Hall, 
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., August 14, 1893. The follow- 
ing officers and members were present: 
President, S. A. Forbes, Champaign, 111., second vice-president, J. 
B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J.; secretary, H. Garman, Lexington, 
Ky.; J. M. Aldrich, Moscow, Idaho; G. F. Atkinson, Ithaca, N. Y.; 
G. C. Davis, Agricultural College, Mich.; C. P. Gillette, Fort Collins, 
Colo.; A. D. Hopkins, Morgantown, W. Ya.; L. O. Howard, Washing- 
ton, D. C; M. E. Murtfeldt, Kirkwood, Mo.; H. Osborn, Ames, Iowa; 
C. Y. Riley, Washington, D. C; P. H. Eolfs, Lake City, Fla.; H. E. 
Summers, Champaign, 111. ; F. M. Webster, Wooster, Ohio; H. E. Weed, 
Agricultural College, Miss. 
A number of visitors and members of other scientific associations 
were present during the session. 
The call to order was followed by the delivery of the annual address 
of the president. 
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 
By S. A. Forbes, Champaign, III. 
Gentlemen: It is my present pleasing duty to set in motion the 
machinery of this Association of Economic Entomologists for what is 
apparently to be the most important meeting we have ever held. No 
one acquainted with our field can look over the titles which our secre- 
tary has brought together for his preliminary program, or the names 
of those eminent in entomology and in its economic applications who 
have consented to prepare papers on these subjects, without recog- 
nizing the fact that this is an exceptional meeting; and I heartily wish 
that your choice might have fallen for this time upon either an older 
or a younger entomologist for the presentation of a general address; 
either upon one of those who have practically covered in the period of 
their careers the development of economic entomology in this country, 
and so might have brought to us the results of the fullest and most 
fruitful experience, or upon one of that interesting group of younger 
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