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Voted that the report be accepted and the recommendations adopted. 
President A. G. Ruggles : We will now listen to the report of the 
Delegate appointed to attend the International Conference of Phyto¬ 
pathology and Economic Entomology at Wageningen, Holland. 
REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF 
PHYTOPATHOLOGISTS AND ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 
HELD IN HOLLAND, JUNE 24-30, 1923 
Mr. President and Members :—-The international conference held at Wageningen 
last June was the first international gathering which professedly in its title brought 
together the plant-disease men and the agricultural entomologists. As a result it 
was largely attended by both types of workers. Some time in advance of the meeting 
I received a letter from the President of this Association appointing me an official 
delegate. Later, on learning that Mr. Arthur Gibson was to be in Europe at that 
time, President Ruggles sent him, through me, official papers entitling him also to 
represent this Association. 
Mr. Gibson and I were greatly delighted to find that the conference had attracted 
men from many lands. Twenty-two countries were represented if we include in the 
count British dominions, like Canada and Australia, as distinct countries. The 
majority of the delegates were from European countries, but Japan and China and 
Australia and Brazil sent delegates. From the United States, Dr. C. L. Shear and 
Dr. Haven Metcalf, both phytopathologists, were present, Dr. H. T. Gussow joined 
Mr. Gibson from Canada and Dr. Rudolph of the New Jersey Experiment Station, 
a Hollander, was home on vacation. In the enumeration I have also counted the 
Dutch East Indies as a distinct country. The new European governments of 
Ireland, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland were represented. The original list as 
published in the program of the conference was altered in a number of respects. 
Several important men who appeared in the original list were unable to attend, and 
a few others whose names did not occur in the original list were present. Professor 
Jaczewsky of Russia was absent, but Russia was represented by Dr. Alexander 
Buchheim, also a phytopathologist. Dr. Paul Marchal of France, who was not 
in the original list, was able to join the conference at the last moment. The 
countries represented were,— 
Holland 
Germany 
Hungary 
Czecho-Slovakia 
France 
England 
Ireland 
Russia 
Sweden 
Switzerland 
Poland 
Canada 
Denmark 
Japan 
Dutch East Indies 
Belgium 
United States of America 
Austria 
Finland 
Australia 
China 
Italy 
Meetings were held Sunday evening, June 24, and all day Monday and Tuesday 
in the great hall of the University of Wageningen (the old Agricultural College has 
been made a university). The seating space was surrounded by wall and window 
