February, ’24] 
BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS 
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Dear Sir, 
I have pleasure in forwarding herewith a copy of the Report of the International 
Conference of Phytopathology and Economic Entomology. 
In the circular which was sent to you together with the program, the Committee 
has promised to present each member with a copy of the Report. At the time the 
Committee could not foresee that the Report would fill so extensive a volume, with 
many coloured and black plates. With the Report at hand you will no doubt appre¬ 
hend that the printing expenses have by far exceeded the estimate. Therefore it 
will not be possible to sell the Report at the price mentioned in the circular referred 
to above, it is absolutely necessary to raise the selling price to fl. 4 - ( = $1.60 = 7 — 
28 fr. frs. =8.7 sw. frs) free of expedition charges, for members f 3.75 (= $1.50 = 6/4 = 
26 fr. frs = 8 sw. frs.) 
The Committee will be highly pleased if the members of the Conference will take 
their share in the expenses by paying for their copy if possible. If you are willing to 
grant this request, please foward a postal order (f 3.75) to the Secretary. 
Furthermore you can aid the Committee by trying to sell more copies if through 
your kind interference some of your colleagues or other interested persons or in¬ 
stitutes would order a copy, the whole issue of 1000 copies might be sold. This 
object would also be greatly furthered by referring to the report in recommending 
notes in the periodicals. 
Orders for a copy are to be addressed to the Secretary. 
Yours truly 
T. SCHOEVERS, 
Secretary , 
Wageningen. 
To the Plant Pathologists and Economic Entomologists of the World 
The undersigned is much impressed by the great interest taken by his colleagues 
from abroad in the first Conference of Phytopathology and Economic Entomology. 
Not only that the hope has been expressed by the attendants that similar Conferences 
may be held every second or third year, but also several of them expressed the wish 
of more regularly being informed about the research work going on in those countries, 
which on account of their language, have difficulties in making their results known 
abroad. The bigger countries have their Journals which are being read everywhere 
in the world, the present report shows that countries whose language is not spoken 
internationally, e. g. Denmark, Hungary, Greece, Sweden, Russia, Lithuania and 
Holland, are also contributing their share to the advance of these sciences but they 
have no such periodicals in which they could publish in an international language. 
It may be to the general benefit of all concerned to combine research papers from 
these countries in one International Journal of Plant Pathology and Economic Ento¬ 
mology, published in English, French and German. There is no doubt that a 
volume of about the same size as the present Report could be issued every year. 
If desired it could easily be arranged that these volumes, together with the Reports 
of future International Conferences should form one series. 
The decision as to whether or not the undersigned will undertake the redaction 
and publishing of such a permanent international journal (in which the Reports of 
Conferences may be intercalated as additional volumes) rests largely with all the 
workers in this field. Unless there is forthcoming from them a sufficiently repre- 
