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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 13 
establishment of a serious pest in some section of the country heretofore uninfested. 
There should be one institution in this country with a sufficiently large number of 
specialists to exert a very decided influence upon our systematic work, and the 
National Museum is the logical institution. 
3. Entomologists should be assured of sufficient space and custodians to properly 
and permanently care for large and small donations of specimens and regulations 
which will be sufficiently rigid to prevent the loss or misuse of materials. It is known 
that the National Museum has not secured large and irreplaceable collections, because 
there was little assurance that they would be cared for to the best advantage and this 
condition is bound to continue and the Museum will not receive collections which 
would otherwise be bequeathed until the Museum is able to offer the necessary facil¬ 
ities and safeguards. 
4. Popular exhibits, already alluded to, are essential to the popularity and success 
of any Museum aside from the reasons already advanced for such exhibits. There 
is need of several specialists to prepare entomological exhibits at least comparable 
with similar exhibits in the larger museums of the nation. 
5. Funds should be available to purchase collections. Occasionally collections 
containing large numbers of types of American insects, or containing material other¬ 
wise difficult to secure are obtainable only by purchase. 
6. A systematic effort should be made to have as complete a representation of the 
American fauna as possible. The present force is inadequate to consider such an 
effort. 
7. Funds should be available to enable the employment of a regular collector or 
collectors for making collecting expeditions, first consideration to be given to com¬ 
pleting the collections from the North American continent, but later this should be 
enlarged to include the entire world. 
8. Proper and legitimate expansion of the Insect Division of the Museum calls for 
greater space and more satisfactory working quarters as already stated and with this 
very evident need in mind the future plans for the Museum should include the erec¬ 
tion of a separate building for insects. 
In conclusion your committee would urge entomologists to furnish the National 
Museum with types or cotypes of species described by them as well as duplicate 
representatives of groups being worked up, and to cooperate with the Museum 
authorities in every possible way. Your committee has every confidence in the abil¬ 
ity of those in charge of the affairs of the Division of Insects, of the Department of 
Biology, and of the Museum itself, but it realizes further that they alone are powerless 
to institute the many needed reforms without the thorough cooperation, assistance 
and support of all entomologists and those interested in the welfare of entomology. 
Respectfully submitted, 
J. J. Davis, 
V. L. Kellogg, 
E. P. Felt, 
Herbert Osborn, 
E. D. Ball, 
Committee. 
Mr. J. J. Davis: I would like to offer as a member of the com¬ 
mittee, a resolution which I think has a direct bearing and should be 
considered at the same time that we consider this report. The reason 
we believe it is well to consider such a resolution is the fact that it is 
going to be impossible to secure results simply by approving a report 
