MEETINGS
SCARCITY OF ENTOMOLOGISTS
By B. A. PORTER
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA. Tutwiler Hotel. February
4-6, 1957. The Thirty-First
Annual Meeting, Cotton States Branch, Entomological Society of America. Secretary-Treasurer,
W. G. Eden, Department
of Zoology-Entomology,
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama.
The demand for entomologists is increasing rapidly, and now greatly exceeds the number that are
being trained. Insects cause tremendous
losses to
the farmers, processers, and dealers in agricultural
commodities.
Such losses have been estimated
at
four billion dollars a year. They are also major factors in the transmission
of numerous diseases of
human beings and livestock. The problems of controlling these insects are becoming increasingly difficult
in spite of the development of many new and highly
potent insecticides.
A selection process seems to be
going on whereby the insects of a given species that
are more readily killed are eliminated by the insecticides used, and the surviving population is, on the
average, much harder to kill.
In the Federal service, the shortage of entomologists is evidenced by the fact that the Civil Service
Commission is at the present time unable to supply
lists of candidates
for many jobs that should be
filled. Some positions have remained vacant for a
year or more while a search has been made for
qualified candidates.
Sometimes a dozen or more
letters of inquiry have gone out without yielding a
single candidate.
The shortage of entomologists is particularly
acute
in the phases of the profession dealing with fundamental studies of insect physiology and toxicology,
studies of insects in relation to the transmission
of
plant diseases, and in the control of insects by utilization of insect diseases. These phases of entomology are expanding rapidly and the specialized training of entomologists
in these disciplines
has not.
expanded accordingly.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. Gunter Hotel. March 10-12
1957. The Fifth Annual Meeting, Southwester~
Branch, Entomological Society of America. Secretary-Treasurer,
S. W. Clark, Room 1701, 811 Rusk
A ve., Houston 2, Texas.
DES MOINES, IOWA. The Savery Hotel. March 27-29
1957. Twelfth
Annual
Meeting, North Centrai
Branch, Entomological Society of America. Secretary-Treasurer,
C. W. Wingo, 102 Whitten Hall
Columbia, Missouri.
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PORTLAND, OREGON, Multnomah
Hotel. June 26-28,
1957. Forty-First
Annual Meeting, Pacific Branch
Entomological
Society of America.
Secretary~
Treasurer,
H. H. Keifer, 1112 Swanston Drive
Sacramento
14, California.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK. Commodore Hotel. November 25-26, 1957. The Twenty-Ninth
Annual Meeting, Eastern
Branch, Entomological
Society of
America.
Secretary-Tl'easurer,
B. F. Driggers,
New Jersey
Agricultural
Experiment
Station,
New Brunswick, New Jersey.
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. Hotel Peabody. December 2-5
1957. The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Entomo~
logical Society of America. President, H. M. Arm• itage, 1617 41st Street, Sacramento 19, California;
Chairman, Local Arrangements
Committee, H. G.
Johnston, National Cotton Council, Memphis, Tennessee; Executive Secretary,
R. H. Nelson, 1530
P Street, N.W., Washington
5, D. C.
ELECTIONS
PRESIDENT-ELECT.On the initial ballot J. T. Creighton, R. L. Metcalf and Alvah Peterson were the
three candidates with the most votes. Since none
had a majority
a run-off ballot was necessary.
R. L. Metcalf was chosen in the run-off. He will
serve as President-Elect
in 1957, President in 1958
and on the Governing Board as immediate Past
President in 1959.
GOVERNINGBOARD. The two new members of the
Board elected were Commander K. L. Knight for
Section D and M. P. Jones for Section E. These
with the new Branch representatives,
O. I. Snapp
for Cotton States and E. H. Littooy for the Pacific Branch will take office at the end of the 1956
annual meeting and serve through the 1959 annual
meeting.
HONORARYMEMBERS.J. J. Davis and E. M. Walker
were elected to Honorary Membership. These outstanding entomologists well deserve the honor.
BALLOT COUNTING. We wish to thank the Ballot
Counting Committees who carefully checked and
recorded the votes in the two elections.
For the
initial ballot the committee consisted of J. R. Foster, R. E. Hamman and K. A. Haines, chairman.
For the run-off ballot the committee members were
F. P. Harrison, M. D. Leonard and R. W. Sherman, chairman.
On the first ballot 1,899 votes
were cast while the count for the run-off was 2,197.
THE PERMANENT
ANNUAL DEADLINE
FOR
SUBMISSION
OF TITLES
AND ABSTRACTS
TO THE CHAIRMAN
OF THE PROGRAM
COMMITTEE
FOR THE ANNUAL MEETINGS
OF THE SOCIETY IS SEPTEMBER
1.
INTERNATIONAL
ABSTRACTS
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
OF
The title of the journal Bl'itish Abstracts
of Medical Sciences published by the Council of Biological
and Medical Abstracts Ltd., 4 and 5 Fitzroy Square,
London W1, England, has been changed to International Abstracts
of Biological Sciences.
Into'national
Abstracts
of Biological Sciences abstracts the world literature
in the following fields:
Anatomy, Animal Behaviour, Biochemistry,
Biophysics, Cytology, Embryology, Endocrinology,
Epidemiolo!1;y, Experimental
Biology, Genetics, Haematology, Histochemistry,
Histology, Immunology, Microbiology, Nutrition, Odontology, Parasitology,
Pathology, Pharmacology,
Physical Anthropology,
Physiology, Radiation Effects, Toxicology and Viruses.
J. M. GINSBURG
Joseph M. Ginsburg from the Entomology Department, Rutgers
University,
is spending a year in
Israel. He was appointed by the Research Foundation of the State University
of New York to serve
on Point IV program, sponsored by the I.C.A. While
on leave of absence from the University, he will be
connected with the Israel Ministry of Agriculture.
Mail will reach him c/o U. S. Embassy, Agricultural
Division, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
ENTOMOLOGY CLUB
The attention of our members in southern California is called to this club which holds quarterly
meetings. In June 1956 E. H. Coe, 185 South Alvarado St., Los Angeles 57, became Chairman.
The
Secretary is R. E. Campbell, Box 70, Whittier.
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