February, ’18] 
BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS 
5 
Summary 
Balance on Index Account. $15.51 
Balance on Journal account. 189.27 
Balance on Association account. 588.87 
One 4% Liberty Bond. 100.00 
$893.65 
Deposited in Melrose Savings Bank $157.42 
Deposited in Malden National Bank 636.23 
Respectfully submitted, 
A. F. Burgess, Secretary . 
On motion, the report was accepted and the financial part referred 
to the auditing committee. 
President R. A. Cooley: The next item on the program is the 
report of the executive committee. This committee has not held a 
meeting during the year, and there is therefore no business of impor¬ 
tance to report. I will now call for the report of the employment 
bureau, which will be read by the secretary. 
REPORT OF ENTOMOLOGISTS’ EMPLOYMENT BUREAU FOR 1917 
December 26, 1917. 
The Entomologists’ Employment Bureau seeks to interest and help in the most 
impartial and impersonal manner possible both employers and employees in the field 
of entomology. The policy of the Bureau under the present administration is simply 
to bring together candidates seeking positions in various phases of entomological 
work and those employers who are responsible for the recommendations or appoint¬ 
ments to such positions. When information concerning a possible position comes to 
the attention of the Bureau, it has been the practice to furnish to the employer a 
list of several names of such men as appear from their enrollment blanks to be best 
fitted for the position in question and possibly available for the appointment. An 
abstract of the principle points given on the enrollment blank with the names of 
parties to whom the candidate refers for additional information is furnished the 
employer for each name. It is expected that the employer should then select and 
communicate with such candidates as he desires to investigate further. Notice is 
also sent to each candidate whose name has been thus used, advising him to get into 
communication with the employer and learn full details regarding the position and 
present complete and up-to-date information regarding his own qualifications for 
appointment. 
During the calender year 1917, 12 new names have been enrolled in the Bureau. 
Seven former members have re-inrolled during the year. Six other men have received 
the total of 10 references offered by the Bureau for the enrollment fee of $2. These 
men have been notified but as yet we have received no reply from them. The total 
number of the roll at present is 65. 
Information has come to the Bureau regarding 24 openings, and among these 4 
men suggested by the Bureau have been definitely placed with several more from 
which we have not yet heard because of neglect on the part of the candidate, no 
doubt, and of recent notifications. Two hundred and eleven names have been 
suggested to these possible employers for their further consideration and selection 
