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to transact the necessary business of the Association during any interim 
that may exist before another meeting. Carried. 
Mr. T. J. Headlee: The Ecological Society of America has 
appointed a committee to work out and define, if possible, the in¬ 
terrelationship of this Association and the Ecological Society, because 
they seem to believe that they could be of considerable aid to the 
economic entomologist. I have been asked to present this matter and 
suggest that a special committee be appointed to cooperate with the 
committee appointed by the Ecological Society. 
By vote of the Association, the President was instructed to appoint 
this committee. 
President R. A. Cooley: I wish to announce that I have com¬ 
municated with Dr. Forbes by telegraph, and he has accepted the 
chairmanship of the special committee to which he was appointed. 
I wish to express my personal appreciation of the hearty and en¬ 
thusiastic work of the committees and the thorough cooperation of all 
the members in making the program a success. 
Adjournment. 
PART II—PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS 
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS 
ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF THE 
NATION 
By R. A. Cooley, Bozeman , Montana 
As we come together at this time on the occasion of the Thirtieth 
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Economic Entomol¬ 
ogists two things are prominent in our minds: first, the fact of the 
great world war, and second, our desire to be of service to the nation. 
I have thought it desirable to review our status and to discuss economic 
entomology in the light of the national emergency, and in doing so I 
hope that what is said may be of interest to our Canadian as well as to 
our American entomologists. Necessarily, conditions in the United 
States will be discussed more particularly, but the underlying truths 
will be of wider application. 
War, while most deplorable, is nevertheless a great teacher of lessons 
and may be a great impulse to progress. The needs of the nation as 
brought prominently to view by war, are but little different from those 
of peace, but they become intensified by the stress of the times and, 
