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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
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The Institute has published in the past year one research bulletin. It has on 
hand additional manuscripts representing research work in sulphur, both in the 
insecticidal and the fungicidal phases, and a manuscript representing investigational 
work in calcium arsenates. It is continuing its informal news letter from month to 
month. 
There are now about 300 scientific members and about 25 industrial members. 
Plans for this year include various further investigational projects. 
Respectfully submitted, 
W. C. O’Kane, Chairman 
Voted that the report be accepted. 
President A. G. Ruggles : We will now listen to the report of the 
Representative on the Council of the Union of American Biological 
Societies. 
REPORT OF THE REPRESENTATIVES ON THE COUNCIL OF THE UNION 
OF AMERICAN BIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES 
Your representatives took part in the organization meeting of the Union of 
American Biological Societies which convened in Washington April 26, 1923. An 
account of this meeting was published in the Oct. 5, 1923 issue of Science and which 
doubtless has been seen by most of the membership of this association. The 
by-laws which were adopted at this meeting were given in this article and need not 
be quoted here. 
Section 9 of the by-laws however may be of interest as bearing on the methods 
provided for obtaining funds to meet current expenses of the Union, and is as follows: 
“The Council shall have power to receive and administer funds for the promotion 
of the purposes of the Union. Investments shall be made by the Treasurer with the 
advice and consent of the Executive Committee. For the defraying of current ex¬ 
penses the Council shall recommend assessments upon the member societies to be 
distributed in such manner as the Council shall determine.” 
The report of the “Joint Publications Committee” was presented and discussed 
at length by the representatives of the societies present. The report of this com¬ 
mittee appeared in Science , Vol. 5 8 No. /500 page 236 and was distributed in leaflet 
form to the membership of this association by the Secretary of the Council,Prof. I. L. 
Lewis, under date of Oct. 12. It may be concluded therefore that the members are 
fully advised as to the character of this report. It will be recalled that figures were 
given showing the cost of manufacture and distribution of 12 monthly numbers of an 
abstract journal, and which to each of the 6,000 individual members of the societies 
involved, would be $6.20. This estimate does not include editorial, bibliographic 
and clerical expenses. It is hoped that the efforts of the National Research Council 
to secure adequate support for an International Scientific Bibliography and abstract¬ 
ing, will serve to support at least a considerable part of this overhead. 
There was some difference of opinion among the delegates present at the organiza¬ 
tion meeting as to the advisability of publishing a single comprehensive system of 
abstracts and indexes for all of the biologic sciences, or whether separate reports 
should be issued covering the work of the respective groups. In order to obtain the 
opinion of the individual members of the various constituent societies, Prof. I. F. 
