Following the dinner short addresses on various insect pests 
under txvestigation were made by Messrs. Burgess, Peterson, Smith, Graf, 
and Gaffrey, of the Bureau of Entomology, and by Dr. W. L. Britton, 
State Entomologist of Connecticut, who spoke on the Anomala, and W. S. 
Hough, Assistant Entomologist at the Experiment Station, Blacksburg, Va., 
whose topic was the banded leaf roller. A letter was read from H. A. 
Gossard, of the Ohio Experiment Station, President of the American 
Association cf Economic Entomologists. 
On the morning of July 30 the visitors were shown about the 
Bureau of Entomology, leaving there at 10 o'clock for the Bee Culture 
Laboratory at Somerset, Md., in charge of J. I. Hambleton, where the 
remainder of the morning was spent learning about the investigations 
in progress there. Lunch was served by the Women's Club of Somerset. 
The next stop was made at Sligo, Md., to visit the laboratory 
maintained there by the Divisions of Fruit Insects, Truck-Crop Insects 
and Stored-Product Insects of the Bureau of Entomology, and observe 
the work carried on there by Messrs. Siegler, Popenoe, Simmons, and 
Snodgrass. Leaving there at about 1.30, the members of the party went. 
to the University of Maryland, at College Park, where they were 
received by President A. F. Woods, of that institution, and were shown, . 
among other interesting features, some experiments with stickers and 
various insecticides, conducted under the direction of Prof. E. N. Cory, 
State Entomologist. The last visit for the day was next made, at the 
Beltsville Experimental Farm, where J. L. Webb, Acting in Charge of 
Southern Field-Crop Insect Investigations, demonstrated some remarkable 
results of a fly-control campaign under his direction. 
After’ returning to the Hotel Harrington the party went in the 
evening to Frederick, Md. On the $lst, rain prevented a field trip 
which had been planned. A joint meeting with the Maryland Horticultural 
Society, previously arranged for, was held in the forenoon, at which | 
addresses were made by prominent Marylanders and others. Principal 
in the line of entomology were discussions on the oriental fruit moth, 
led by L. A. Stearns, of the New Jersey Experiment Station, the rosy 
aphid, led by Dr. T. J. Headlee, State Entomologist for New Jersey, and 
the Japanese beetle, led by L. B. Smith, in charge of the Japanese 
Beetle Laboratory at Riverton, N. J. The summer meeting came to a 
close with an informal luncheon, 
Dr. T. J. Headlee and P. J. Parrott, of the Geneva, N. Y., Exe 
periment Station, were nominated for chairman and secretary, respectively, 
of the next meeting. Northern New Jersey and southeastern New York have 
been proposed as the place for that meeting. 
