February, ’18] 
BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS 
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President R. A. Cooley: I will now call for the report of the 
committee on auditing. 
REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE 
We, the undersigned, your committee on audit, hereby certify that we have 
examined the* bills and accounts of your secretary covering income and expenditures 
from the Association, the Journal and from the Index—also the accounts of the 
Employment Bureau—and that we believe the same to be correct. 
Signed Thomas J. Headlee, 
A. G. Ruggles, 
• Committee. 
By vote of the Association, the report was accepted and adopted. 
President R. A. Cooley: I will call next for the report of the 
committee on resolutions. 
Mr. E. D. Ball: The resolution relative to war service was drafted 
by the committee with the assistance of Mr. Herbert Osborn and Mr. 
E. P. Felt. 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS 
We, the members of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, wish 
to express by this resolution our deep desire to be of every possible service to the 
nation in the war. Whatever duty may fall to us we shall consider it an honor and a 
privilege to perform. 
We are deeply conscious of the complex problems and difficulties that have fallen 
to those on whom the direction of the war must rest; and we wish further to express 
our appreciation of the extraordinary achievement already won in mastering these 
difficulties and in solving these problems. 
As a loyal body of American citizens we are eager to assist in meeting such special 
problems as our technical knowledge and training may help to solve. It is our hope,, 
therefore, to offer in fullest degree the technical services of our individual members. 
This we feel to be of great moment because of the vital bearing of expert entomological 
knowledge on certain serious phases of camp sanitation, especially in the prevention 
of the insect-borne diseases, including typhus and cholera, that have exacted severe 
toll in all wars, including the present struggle, and in the conservation of perishable 
supplies belonging to the army. 
For this service it is our privilege to offer a body of men who have had a practical, 
definite and thorough training, that should render especially valuable their efforts as 
members of our national army—a training fully equal, we believe, to that of the 
corps of entomologists who are now rendering identical and signal service in the 
armies of our allies. 
It is not our thought to propose by this resolution a specific classification or other 
plan of that nature; but rather to express our earnest wish to be of the utmost help, 
and to offer at this time a service which we believe and trust should be of genuine 
and special value. 
Resolved , That the thanks of the Association be extended to the Carnegie Institute 
of Technology for the use of its buildings and apparatus and for the freedom of the 
