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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 17 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON POLICY 
The personnel of the subcommittees during the current year is as follows: 
Education —Air. Dean, Chairman, Mr. Ruggles, Dr. Newell. 
Insect control —Dr. Felt, Chairman, Mr. Burgess, Mr. O’Kane. 
Organization —Dr. Newell, Chairman, Air. O’Kane, Air. Dean. 
Research —Dr. Ball, Chairman, Dr. Swaine, Mr. Parrott. 
Publication —Mr. Burgess, Chairman, Dr. Felt, Mr. Ruggles. 
In addition to correspondence and personal interviews with individual members' 
one meeting of the entire Committee on Policy was held at the Gibson Hotel, Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio, on Saturday evening, December 29. 
On Ala^ 7 31 a letter was received from Dr. J. R. Schramm, Executive Secretary of 
the Division of Biology and Agriculture of the National Research Council, relative 
to the continuation of the Committee on Cooperation with the Division. It was 
pointed out that the committees of the different scientific societies had individually 
been very useful during the first years of the Council’s existence, but at the present 
time most of them were relatively inactive. As simplification of committee appoint¬ 
ments and a reduction of the machinery to those elements which were obviously 
most serviceable could hardly fail to increase the effectiveness of the organization 
of the National Research Council, it was voted that the Committee of Cooperation 
be discontinued, since the officially elected representative of our Association provided 
sufficient contact with the Council. 
The Committee on Policy would recommend for consideration the possibility of 
establishing a series of lectures at Entomological centers. These lectures should be 
on such broad subjects as History of Entomology, including Insect Paleontology, 
General Insect Morphology, General Insect Taxonomy, Biometrics, General Ecology, 
and Physical Chemistry as applied to Insecticides. 
As the Crop Protection Institute was organized for the promotion and maintenance 
of research in connection with insect and other plant pests under the sponsorship 
of this Association and the National Research Council, its work and policies are of 
vital interest and concern to our members and may properly be considered by the 
Committee of Policy. 
An examination of the affairs of the Institute lead the committee to believe that 
it is being wisely and effectively directed and that it is making steady progress. 
Considering the fact that the Institute is a new enterprise and wholly self-supporting, 
the• activities of the past year show creditable achievements, its support of five 
research projects of fundamental importance constituting the outstanding accomplish¬ 
ment. This progress affords the Association justifiable satisfaction and confirms 
our belief that the Institute can serve as the right kind of a medium between industrial 
organizations and state experiment stations and universities. 
The promising results obtained with new insecticides during recent years have 
emphasized the importance of chemistry in the warfare against insects. Notwith¬ 
standing the notable progress that has been made, the chemistry of insecticides is, 
for the most part, an undeveloped field and large possibilities undoubtedly exist for 
the widening and deepening of our fundamental knowledge. It is a branch of effort 
that should receive more profound and concentrated attention than has been mani¬ 
fested in the past. To accomplish this end the outstanding need is unquestionably 
for more thoroly trained chemists who should give their undivided efforts to de- 
