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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 
Committee on U. S. National Museum. 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL MUSEUM 
Your committee has maintained its contact with the U. S. National Museum and 
noted the progress in the work of the Division of Insects, this in spite of the lack of 
financial support necessary for the proper maintenance of a Museum national in scope. 
As a matter of record we note with gratification that the valuable Aldrich Col¬ 
lection of Diptera has been deposited in the Museum by Dr. J. M. Aldrich and that 
the numerous type specimens in the collection of the Pennsylvania State Department 
of Agriculture are also being deposited in the Museum. Many institutions and 
individuals are now regularly placing their type specimens there. It might be 
noted in this connection that while the Museum, under the present rules, does not 
lend a unique type, it does lend paratypes and it has always been the rule that any 
one that deposits type material, even if unique, will have the privilege at any time 
of borrowing the material which he deposited. 
Funds available for publications are wholly inadequate and this committee 
wishes to go on record as in favor of an enlargement, in the near future, of this 
important phase of the Museum’s activities. 
The fact that the National Museum is the principal depository of types in North 
America and the further fact that this association has encouraged the depositing of 
collections and types therein makes it desirable that this committee be continued. 
This will enable our association to more effectively cooperate in the development of 
this great national collection which has been in the past and will undoubtedly in 
the future be invaluable to all economic as well as systematic entomologists,since all 
economic work is based on a correct specific identification. 
Respectfully submitted, 
J. J. Davis, Chairman 
Herbert Osborn 
E. P. Felt 
O. A. JOHANNSEN 
W. J. Holland 
Committee 
Voted that the report be accepted. 
President A.G. Ruggles : Next is the report of a special Committee 
on Amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws. 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON AMENDMENTS TO THE 
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 
The committee recommends that the classification of the membership in the 
American Association of Economic Entomologists remain as at present with three 
classes: Active, Associate and Foreign. 
The committee has reached this conclusion after examining replies to all letters on 
this subject from a number of members of the society. These replies were in a 
proportion of eight opposed to one in favor of the proposed amendment. No reason 
