346 ENTOMOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



Agricultural Colle.ye. Amherst, Mass. ; Cornell University. 

 Ithaca, New York ; Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio ; 

 University of California, Berkeley, California ; and Illinois State 

 University, Urbana, Illinois. The second group would include 

 the universities of Wisconsin, Kansas, Indiana, Purdue, Michi- 

 gan, Iowa, Colorado, Minnesota, State University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Harvard University, and several others, while the third 

 group would include many of the agricultural colleges of the 

 Southern States, and those schools where entomology is taught 

 in the general agricultural curriculum. 



In group I we hnd some of the foremost universities in the 

 United States distributed from the east to the west coast. And 

 it is from these schools that the United States Bureau of Ento- 

 mology and the many State experiment stations draw their 

 investigators and workers. Some years ago Dr. Howard, Chief 

 of the United States Bureau, showed in a ])a])er that these five 

 schools provided by far the greater numl)er of entomologists at 

 work in the country. Besides, these schools have supplied, and 

 are supplying, a great number of teachers in the field of ento- 

 mology. 



Being a truly agricultural science, entomoloyy naturally will 

 be found in the curriculum of the agricultural college of the 

 university. In the Ohio State University at least one course in 

 economic entomology is required 'before graduation from the 

 College of Agriculture, and the same is doubtless true of the 

 other members of the first group. Undergraduate work extends 

 over a period of four years, and during that time the student 

 has ample opportunity to specialize in whatever field he may 

 wish. Should he choose entomology as his prospective field, then 

 his first year's work would be that prescribed for the College 

 of Agriculture, and 'his courses of study would include elemen- 

 tary zoology ( as the fundamental preliminary training) , botany, 

 chemistry, etc., along with his language, etc. In his second 

 or sophomore year he would be able to take courses in ento- 

 mology, apiculture, evolution, horticulture, and perhaps an ele- 

 mentary course in plant pathology. The third or junior year 

 is generally regarded as the time for specialization to begin, and 

 it is here that the student will have " found 'himself," and will 

 be in a position to decide further wdiat branch he wishes to pur- 

 sue. Courses in advanced entomology, economic entomology, 

 taxonom}-. invertebrate morphology, bacteriology, and plant 

 pathology would take his attention. Thus, by the end of the 

 third year, he will 'have had a broad fundamental training in his 

 science, as well as those closely related, and he ought to be in 

 a position at the beginning of his senior year to take up a minor 

 research problem under the immediate guidance of an instructor 

 or professor. His prescribed courses for the last year would 

 include invertebrate embryology, medical entomology, genetics, 

 animal reactions, entomological literature, together with a 

 seminar each week. In case of a seminar, each student is 

 assigned a subject generally, on some recent advance in ento- 



