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Official Buttons 
Official buttons for members of the association will be furnished to 
all those who have paid their dues for 1918. Applications for buttons 
should be made to the secretary at the time of the meeting. 
Membership 
Application blanks for membership can be secured from the secre¬ 
tary, or from members of the committee on membership, and all appli¬ 
cations should be made out, properly endorsed, and filed with the 
membership committee on or before December 26. 
Program 
Thursday , December 26, 1918, 10.00 a. m. 
Report of the Secretary. 
Report of the executive committee, by President E. D. Ball. 
Report of the employment bureau, by W. E. Hines, Auburn, Ala. 
Report of the committee on nomenclature, by W. E. Britton, New 
Haven, Conn. 
Report of the committee on entomological investigations, by W. J. 
Schoene, Blacksburg, Ya. 
Report of the committee on index of economic entomology, by E. P. 
Felt, Albany, N. Y. 
Report of the committee on war service, by S. A. Forbes, Urbana, Ill. 
Report of the committee on proposed amendment to the Constitution, 
by E. P. Felt, Albany, N. Y. 
Appointment of committees. 
Miscellaneous business. 
New business. 
Annual address of the President, E. D. Ball, Ames, Iowa. 
“Economic Entomology—Its Foundation and Future.” 
Reading of Papers 
“Practical Operation of Submergence as a Method of Controlling the 
Sprinkling Sewage Filter Fly,” by Thomas J. Headlee, New 
Brunswick, N. J. (15 minutes.) Lantern. 
“The Dispersion of Flies by Flight,” by F. C. Bishopp and E. W. 
Laake, Dallas, Tex. (15 minutes.) 
Results of experiments to determine the distance flies will travel. House flies 
and blow flies have been found to fly much farther than previously reported. 
