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Report of the Committee on Policy, by E. P. Felt, Albany, N. Y. 
Report of the Trustees of the Crop Protection Institute, by W. C. 
O’Kane, Durham, N. H. 
Report of Scientific Trustee, Tropical Plant Research Foundation. 
Report of the Representatives on the Council of the Union of American 
Biological Societies, by A. L. Quaintance, Washington, D. C. 
Report of the Committee on Nomenclature, by Edith M. Patch, Orono, 
Maine. 
Report of the Committee on Index to Economic Entomology, by E. P. 
Felt, Albany, N. Y. 
Report of the Committee on United States National Museum, by W. E. 
Hinds, Baton Rouge, La. 
Report of Representative Appointed to Attend the Association of 
Southern States Entomologists, by Herbert Osborn, Columbus, Ohio. 
Report of Committee to Standardize methods of Estimating insect 
abundance and damage, by J. A. Hyslop, Washington, D. C. 
Report of Committee Concerning the Purchase of the William Barnes 
Collection for the U. S. National Museum, by J. J. Davis, Lafay¬ 
ette, Ind. 
Appointment of Committees. 
Miscellaneous Business. 
New Business. 
Annual Address of the President, A. F. Burgess, Melrose Highlands, 
Mass. 
1. “Our Association.” 
Discussion of the Presidential Address. 
Program 
Thursday Afternoon Session , January i, 1925 , 1:30 
Gymnasium , Central High School 
READING OF PAPERS 
Insects Affecting Cereal, Forage and Field Crops 
2. The Chinch Bug and the Weather. (10 min.) (Lantern.) J. A. 
Hyslop, Washington, D. C. 
A correlation of the climatic factors and chinch bug outbreaks from 1870 to 1920. 
