February, ’24] 
Business proceedings 
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Lewis, Secretary of the Council under date of Oct. 12 circularized the members 
requesting that they indicate their preference in this matter. It is assumed that all 
of the members of this association received this letter (along with the reprint from 
Science giving the report of the Joint Publications Committee) and have already 
advised the secretary as to their wishes. The undersigned have no information as 
to what recommendations will be made in this particular, but assume that the 
results of the Secretary’s canvass will be made known at the next meeting of the 
Council, which will doubtless occur in the near future. 
Your representatives at the meeting of the Council were much impressed with the 
arguments in favor of an adequate system of biologic abstracts and indexes and feel 
that the aims and purposes of the council in conjunction with the Executive Com¬ 
mittee of the Division of Biology and Agriculture, o f the National Research Council, 
warrant the active support of the association of economic entomologists. 
Respectfully submitted, 
A. L. Quaintance 
William Moore 
Representatives 
Voted that the report be accepted. 
President A. G. Ruggles: The next report is by the Committee on 
Nomenclature. 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE 
Your Committee, in pursuance of the project assigned to it and acting with the 
authority conferred upon it at the last meeting of this Association, is submitting 
herewith 310 new names with the recommendation that these names be adopted as 
official names of the American Association of Economic Entomologists. We are also 
submitting 40 changes in names which have been adopted by the Association as a 
result of previous Committee reports, with the recommendation that these new names 
be substituted for the names now recognized as official. In addition to the above 
two lists is a list of 24 names which the Committee suggests be used tentatively 
until such time as these insects, either by attracting increased attention of the eco¬ 
nomic workers or for other reasons, assume such importance that they warrant 
official recognition. We do not think it advisable that these names be accepted as 
official names of the Association at the present time. 
To obviate the almost impossible task of considering each of the proposed names 
individually, on the one hand, and accepting the entire list without due consideration 
on the other hand, your committee proposes that the list of names proposed be 
prepared in mimeographed form and a copy sent to each active member of the 
association. Objections, substantiated by reason, to any name should be directed 
to the secretary of this committee early enough to be in his hands on or before March 
1, 1924. 
All names to which objection is raised will be stricken from the list and the so 
abridged list with all names previously adopted by the association and not affected 
by this report to be published in the Journal of Economic Entomology. We 
further recommend that 1,000 or more separates be printed and offered for sale. 
The names to which exception is taken will be reconsidered by the committee and 
the amended name submitted to the Association with the next report of this com¬ 
mittee. 
