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service amounted to 252 years. There was no formal program, but Dr. Howard was 
asked to take charge of ceremonies, and he read a very interesting letter, both pathetic 
and humorous, from Professor Josef Jablonowski, of Budapest, Hungary, then called 
upon each of the following entomologists for a few remarks: Professor S. A. Forbes, 
Urbana, Ill.; Professor Herbert Osborn, Columbus, Ohio; Dr. E. P. Felt, Albany, 
N. Y.; Dr. W. E. Britton, New Haven, Conn.; Mr. C. L. Marlatt, Washington, D. C.; 
Professor P. J. Parrott, Geneva, N. Y.; Dr. E. D. Ball, Ames, Iowa, and Mr. Wilmon 
Newell, Gainesville, Fla. 
A conference of entomologists to discuss the European corn borer situation was 
held at the Hotel Statler at St. Louis, on the evening of January 1, 1920, on invitation 
of Mr. C. L. Marlatt. Certain entomologists in attendance laughingly referred to 
this conference as a celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the reading of Mr. 
Marlatt’s paper, “The Laissez-Faire Philosophy Applied to the Insect Problem.” 
Though no very definite action resulted from this conference, it cannot be said to be 
of no benefit, as the varying viewpoints were explained and discussed. The fol¬ 
lowing were present: R. H. Allen, E. D. Ball, G. M. Bentley, S. W. Bilsing, W. E. 
Britton, A. F. Burgess, E. C. Cotton, G. H. Dean, E. P. Felt, W. P. Flint, S. A. 
Forbes, S. B. Fracker, P. A. Glenn, L. Haseman, T. J. Headlee, J. S. Houser, E. G. 
Kelly, Wilmon Newell, W. C. O’Kane, Herbert Osborn, P. J. Parrott, A. G. Ruggles, 
J. G. Sanders, Franklin Sherman, Jr., M. H. Swenk and W. R. Walton. 
It will be of interest to members of the Association of Economic Entomologists to 
learn that Dr. Paul Marchal, of Paris, has recently been elected member of the 
Academia dei Lincei of Rome and of the Academy of Sciences of Brussels. It should 
be a matter of pride to all entomologists, and especially to economic entomologists 
(for Doctor Marchal is distinctly an economic entomologist, and is, by the way, a 
foreign member of this Association), that these great honors should have been con¬ 
ferred upon one of their number. It is one of the rapidly accumulating evidences of 
the esteem which workers in entomology are gaining in the minds of men working in 
other branches of science. This news will be especially agreeable to the American 
entomologists who had the pleasure of meeting Doctor Marchal during his visit to the 
United States in the summer of 1913. 
Mailed March 27, 1920 
