JOURNAL 
OF 
ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGIST 
Vol. 17 FEBRUARY, 1924 No. 1 
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American 
Association of Economic Entomologists 
The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the American Association of 
Economic Entomologists was held at the University of Cincinnati, 
Cincinnati, Ohio, December 29, 1923 to January 2, 1924. 
The Section on Apiculture convened at 10 a. m., December 29 and held 
a morning session. The meeting was adjourned at noon and the program 
completed at a later session. 
The Section on Horticultural Inspection met on the afternoon of 
December 29. On the evening of December 31st, the Exension Ento¬ 
mologists held a conference at the Gibson Hotel, 60 members being 
present. 
The opening meeting of the general association was called to order at 
10 a. m., Monday, December 31, 1923, by President A. G. Ruggles. 
The annual reports were read and the business of the opening session 
was transacted. The address of the President was delivered before the 
close of this session. The sessions were continued in the afternoon, 
throughout Tuesday and were concluded with a final business session 
on Wednesday. 
Tuesday morning was devoted to a symposium on the “Methods of 
Estimating Insect Abundance and Damage” and on Wednesday morning 
a series of papers were given on the European Com Borer problem. 
The entomologists’ dinner was held Tuesday evening, January 1. One 
hundred and fifty entomologists were present. 
During the meeting many of the members attended sessions held by 
Section N of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 
The Entomological Society of America and the American Phytopatho- 
logical Society, as well as sessions having programs of especial interest 
to economic entomologists. 
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