The records of the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) contain annual meeting programs; photographs of award winners, speakers, and officers; correspondence; financial statements; bound reports; reprints of published Branch history; meeting minutes; hotel contracts; cassette tapes; and a disk. This ...
MoreThe records of the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) contain annual meeting programs; photographs of award winners, speakers, and officers; correspondence; financial statements; bound reports; reprints of published Branch history; meeting minutes; hotel contracts; cassette tapes; and a disk. This collection also contains a small file of correspondence and financial information on the Cotton States Branch of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, a predecessor organization. Materials are dated from 1937 to 2010. The Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America includes members from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and the United States Territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The organization was established August 2, 1904. A group of entomologists concerned with damage to the cotton crop by the boll weevil elected C. E. Chambliss of South Carolina as Chairman and organized the Association of Official Entomologists of the Cotton Belt, later known as Association of Cotton States Entomologists. The group was active during the ensuing years and was affiliated with the American Association of Economic Entomologists as the Cotton States Branch on December 31, 1925. The American Association of Economic Entomologists merged with the Entomological Society of America in 1953. The name of the branch was changed to Southeastern Branch in 1959.
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