February, ’23] 
BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS 
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national Conference of Phytopathology and Economic Entomology, 
which will be held in Wageningen, Holland, June 25 to 30, 1923, and 
requested that representatives from this association be sent to the con¬ 
ference. 
It was voted that the Executive Committee be authorized, in its 
discretion, to appoint a delegate to attend the conference. 
Secretary A. F. Burgess explained the details of arrangements for 
the different sessions and stated that a very complete exhibit illustrating 
the com borer work, gipsy moth work, and the operations at the vacuum 
fumigation plants supervised by the Federal Horticultural Board in 
Boston, had been prepared and were in a nearby room. An exhibit by 
members of the Entomological Society of America was also in the same 
room. In arranging for the meeting it seemed impractical to provide 
for a visit to the com borer laboratory and the gipsy moth laboratory 
on account of lack of time and possibility of bad weather, and the ex¬ 
hibits above-mentioned have been prepared in order to replace such 
an excursion. 
At this point the session adjourned and reconvened at 1.45 p. m. 
President J. G. Sanders: We will now take up the proposal to enter 
the Union of American Biological Societies. 
Mr. E. D. Ball: I move that this association join the proposed 
Union. 
After the motion had been seconded, Mr. Ball stated that several 
associations had already ratified the proposed constitution and that he 
had been told within the last two or three hours that it was practically 
certain that if it was ratified by all the associations so as to make the 
project large enough to be worth while, that there is $2,000,000 available 
for publication of a bibliographic publication. He stated that it was 
not possible to get this fund unless there can be a union of all the biologi¬ 
cal societies; in case this is brought about, however, it is practically 
certain that there will be an endowment to make a permanent biblio¬ 
graphic Journal. 
Mr. L. O. Howard: The American Association for the Advancement 
of Science this morning approved the movement on condition that all 
the societies join. 
Secretary A. F. Burgess: I think it is very gratifying to hear the 
announcement Dr. Ball has just made in regard to the possibility of 
endowment because one of the prime difficulties has been the financial 
one and up to the present time there has been some uncertainty as to 
just how that could be worked out. It adds a good deal of impetus and 
