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$750,000, and by striking out the request for a proposed appropria¬ 
tion of $1,000,000 for the next fiscal year. 
It was voted to accept the report of the committee as amended. 
President W. C. O’Kane: Is the advisory committee ready to 
nominate officers of the Journal for the ensuing year? 
Mr. W. J. Schoene: On behalf of the advisory committee, I have 
the following report to make: 
The advisorv committee of the Journal of Economic Entomology 
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nominates for editor of the Journal of Economic Entomology, 
E. P. Felt; for associate editor, W. E. Britton; for business manager, 
A. F. Burgess. 
By vote of the Association the nominees were elected. 
President W. C. O’Kane: Next we will have the report of the 
Committee on Nominations. 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS 
For President, Wilmon Newell. 
First Vice-President, H. A. Gossard. 
Second Vice-President (Pacific Slope Branch), E. M. Ehrhorn. 
Third Vice-President (Horticultural Inspection Section), J. G. Sanders. 
Fourth Vice-President (Apiculture Section), F. B. Paddock. 
Member of the Committee .on Policy, W. C. O’Kane. 
Committee on Nomenclature, Arthur Gibson. 
Committee on Membership, A. G. Ruggles. 
Committee on U. S. National Museum, W. J. Holland. 
For councillors to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 
T. J. Headlee, G. A. Dean. 
Advisory committee, Journal of Economic Entomology, L. O. Howard, 
R. W. Harned. 
Representative on the National Research Council, P. J. Parrott. 
Respectfully submitted, 
E. C. Cotton, 
J. J. Davis, 
P. J. Parrott, 
Committee on Nominations. 
By vote of the Association, the Secretary was instructed to cast 
the ballot of the Association for the nominees. 
This was done and they were declared elected. 
President W. C. O’Kane: I will request Past Presidents Britton 
and Felt to escort to the platform, President-elect Wilmon Newell. 
Mr. Wilmon Newell: It is very difficult on an occasion of this 
kind to say very much. I am aware of the face that you have con¬ 
ferred on me the highest honor that it is within your power to bestow. 
I am very deeply appreciative and I wish to assure you that I will give 
to the Association the best that I have, which is not very much, but 
