THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



quently called upon to speak after addresses of this sort at 

 dinners and luncheons, but of course all that we could say was 

 that while we sympathized deeply with the Hollanders, we 

 had no influence whatever, always making the general state- 

 ment, however, that we believed that any nation had the right 

 to protect itself by quarantine against plant enemies and dis- 

 eases, just as it had the right — just, in fact, as it was its duty — 

 to quarantine against human diseases. 



At the last meeting of this conference a permanent organiza- 

 tion was established and representative committees were ap- 

 pointed, with the idea that future international conferences of 

 the sort would probably be called. 



There was much discussion as to the name of the new organ- 

 ization. In the original call it had been termed an International 

 Congress of Economic Entomologists and Phytopathologists. In 

 most European countries, and in certain others, the term Phy- 

 topathology is held to include the damage done by insects to 

 growing plants, and it has often resulted from this use of the 

 term that botanists have been placed in charge of entomological 

 work. We in America can see no reason why an insect should 

 be called a disease of plants, or why two services requiring 

 such different technique and training should be combined under 

 a single misleading term. So when the motion was made to 

 omit the words economic entomologist, and when later some 

 of the delegates, especially the Germans, proposed to compromise 

 by adopting the words Plant Control (Pflanzen Schutz), we 

 opposed both suggestions, and, with the important help of the 

 English delegates and some others, we carried our point. 



It may be stated incidentally that later we were able to do 

 away with the European acceptance of Phytopathology as in- 

 cluding Agricultural Entomology in the nomenclature used 



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