IO4 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll 



the discovery of the carriage of disease by insects and to the 

 remarkable and disastrous spread of the cotton boll weevil 

 throughout the south. There are many other causes, such as 

 the recent very great development of interest in the practical 

 handling of the parasites and predatory enemies of injurious 

 species, but these need not be detailed at this time. I have 

 said enough perhaps to explain why there are so many trained 

 entomologists at present and why the agricultural colleges are 

 training so many more; and that brings us to the immediate 

 question of the training of economic zoologists. 



In an address on "The State and Zoology" given at Balti- 

 more in December, 1900, I called attention to the fact that 

 university teachers should make a study of the markets for 

 the brains and training of their students ; they should study 

 the conditions of those markets and their needs. I showed 

 that the men in charge of university departments of scientific 

 work should keep closely in touch with the government work- 

 along similar lines ; that they should be encouraged to do so 

 by the government; that the government should employ their 

 services where they can be of use, and that they themselves 

 should be able with the intimate knowledge acquired by offi- 

 cial association or by close investigation of government work, 

 to lay out lines of study which will fit their students to take 

 a hand in government work. This, I am glad to say, has been 

 done by several of the teachers of zoology in the agricultural 

 colleges, and by none more successfully than by the Fernalds, 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The men they 

 have turned out have taken good rank among the experts of 

 the state and government departments. In the bureau of 

 which I am the chief I have secured some of our most valua- 

 ble workers from this college. Among them I may mention 

 A. F. Burgess, W. E. Hinds, W. A. Hooker, A. W. Merrill, 

 E. A. Back, H. M. Russell, H. P. Wood, J. H. Hyslop, F. H. 

 Jones, F. D. Conden, C. E. Hood, F. A. Johnson, S. S. Cross- 

 man, C. W. Hooker and A. I. Bourne ; while among the others 

 who have achieved prominence are Dr. E. P. Felt, state ento- 

 mologist of New York; Mr. A. H. Kirkland, the former sup- 



