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tions, within the United States and abroad, to discover insects hitherto unknown or 
unrepresented in the Museum. 
With curators, building, and adequate collections, we are still confronted by 
another urgent need. The results of the work done must be made available to scien¬ 
tific men in every part of the country. This can only be brought about through the 
creation of adequate publishing facilities, insuring the reasonably prompt appearance 
of each work completed. At the present time authors hesitate to undertake large 
monographs not knowing when they will see the light of publicity, nor indeed whether 
they will ever do so. 
Prepared by the committees to investigate conditions and needs of the United 
States National Museum, - 
Entomological Society of America 
T. D. A. Cockerell, 
Herbert Osborn, 
William Barnes, 
William M. Wheeler, 
J. G. Needham, 
American Association 
Economic Entomologists 
John J. Davis, 
Vernon L. Kellogg, 
E. P. Felt, 
Herbert Osborn, 
E. D. Ball, 
Committee. 
Committee. 
Mr. J. J. Davis: The committee recommends that this report be 
accepted and that copies be submitted to the authorities of the 
Museum and requests the aid of all entomologists in the distribution 
of this information. 
Voted that the report be accepted and the recommendations be adopted. 
President W. C. O’Kane : We have yet to hear from the Committee 
on Policy. 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON POLICY 
Your Committee on Policy, following its appointment at the last session, promptly 
organized, elected a chairman, and proceeded to a consideration of the problems 
confronting the Association. 
A preliminary canvass of the members resulted in the presentation of twenty-two 
more or less distinct problems for discussion. 
A second canvass, in which an attempt was made to agree on a few of the more 
important ones for immediate consideration, was not as successful but finally resulted 
in an agreement on the division of the subject matter between five subcommittees, 
each subcommittee to proceed with the discussion and selection of important sub¬ 
jects within its own field. 
The fields and subcommittee assignments are given below, it being understood 
that the chairman was to be ex officio member of each subcommittee and that the 
president held the same relation to those subcommittees to which he had not been 
regularly assigned. 
1. Education: Osborn, Dean, Pierce. 
2. Insect Control: Felt, Sanders, O’Kane. 
3. Organization and Cooperative Relation: Sanders, Burgess, O’Kane. 
4. Research Problems and Standards: Dean, Osborn, Parrott. 1 
5. Publications: Burgess, Pierce, Felt. 
1 Professor Parrott as the Association’s representative on the National Research 
Council was asked to assist this subcommittee. 
