PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Third Entomological Meeting 



The Third Entomological Meeting was held at Pusa from 3rd to 

 15th February 1919, both days inclusive. The Proceedings were opened 

 in a short speech of welcome to the delegates by Mr. J. Mackenna, CLE., 

 I.C.S., Agricultural Adviser to the Government of India, who was followed 

 by the Chairman, Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 F.Z.S., in an Address to the Meeting, after which the business before the 

 Meeting was proceeded with, as is detailed in the following account of 

 the Proceedings. - 



Opekixg Speech by the Ac4Ricultural Adviser to the Goverkment 



OF India. 



Mr. Fletcher and Gentlemen. I desire to extend to you a very cordial Mr. Mackenna. 

 welcome to Pusa. And in particular I wish, on behalf of myself and of 

 the Government of India, heartily to greet representatives from the 

 Portuguese Government in the person of Captain de Mello and from Egyjt 

 as represented by Dr. Gough. From all parts of the Indian Empire and 

 from great distances you have come to attend these meetings and I trust 

 that, on their conclusion, you will agree that the time and the efiort 

 involved, has been well worth it. I have much pleasure, Gentlemen- 

 in welcoming you all. 



Sectional Meetings of the Board of Agriculture are now a recognized 

 part of our departmental activities. But. before the adoption of this 

 formal scheme by the Government of India, Mr. Bainbrigge Fletcher was 

 in the habit of holding, at regular intervals, informal meetings of workers 

 on Entomology at which many important and valuable discussions took 

 place. These meetings are now official and will be convened by the 

 Government of India, but I hope that their value will not be diminished 

 but rather enhanced by their change from informality to formality. 

 It has been most gratifying to me, as I am sure it must be to you. to have 

 heard from many sources appreciations of the value of your last published 

 Proceedings. They were so recorded as to avoid entirely the ofticial 



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