19G THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



that no effort should be spared to build up a complete entomological 

 library at the earliest possible moment. Trice^ the scientist should study 

 things, not books, but he will find a wide use of books most helpful in 

 his study. Next to a library, such colleges should have good collections, 

 which are often of more value than the library. A small show collection, 

 illustrating the families and orders, and the several stages of the most 

 injurious species of the place as well as the groups of beneficial ones 

 should be open to the public. This will be studied and appreciated by 

 the practical farmer, who, as he visits the college, will find it helpful, and 

 will also interest and stimulate the under-class men, who will thus have 

 their attention called towards insects before they commence the regular 

 study, which will not occur till they are well along in the course. Draw- 

 ing, botany, microscopy, and French and German, if thoroughly under- 

 stood, will be great aids to the student who commences the study of 

 entomology. Thus this study will come late in the course and the show 

 collection will be whetting the appetite of the under-class men from the 

 time they enter college until they commence the study. I would also 

 have what I call a student collection — this is a pretty full collection from 

 the locality of the college. This I would hang upon the wall of the lecture 

 room, which I would have dark, except when in use, so as to preserve the 

 colour of the specimens. I would have this in rather small cases, with 

 glass in front and also back where it is desirable, as in case of Diurnals, 

 to study both under and upper sides of the wings. This collection 

 should show at least types of each group in all stages, from egg to imago, 

 as well as nests, cocoons, etc. This is an object lesson ever before the 

 student, is ever ready for use by the teacher to illustrate his lecture, and 

 is at the disposal of the students in naming their own collections or in 

 closer study of any group. It seems to me such a collection should be 

 in every college. Lastly, I would have a laboratory collection which 

 should be a biological collection, and the fuller the better. This is in 

 large, tight, glass-faced drawers. I use the Harvard case. This is for the 

 use of teachers and post-graduates who desire to study further in the 

 science. It is too valuable for general use by the student or to be kept 

 to satisfy general curiosity. 



"the course of study." 



As I have before remarked, before the student commences the study 

 of insects he should have had a good course in free-hand drawing, should 



