WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY HOWARD "JJ 



Added note. — I am adding this note in May, 1929. I had seen 

 little of the actual teaching of entomology for many years, although 

 I had been at Ithaca once or twice during term time and had listened 

 to J. G. Needham and J. Chester Bradley lecturing to large classes 

 of obviously interested students. I had also visited the class rooms 

 in the Kansas State Agricultural College and seen Dr. Roger C. 

 Smith hold the attention of a strong group of apparently very intelli- 

 gent students. I had also visited the University of California, but 

 not during class time. As a result of this paucity of actual experi- 

 ence, I have been surprised and delighted during the past two months 

 at what I have seen at the Universities of California, Washington, 

 Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. The interest in the subject was 

 so great ; the number of students was so large ; the departments were 

 so admirably equipped ; the teachers were so well prepared and so 

 enthusiastic, as almost to satisfy my hopes. I heard actual lectures 

 and attended class-room work only at Minnesota and Illinois. At 

 Minnesota I heard Prof. W. A. Riley, and at Illinois I heard Metcalf 

 and Hayes. The modern method by which advanced classes are in- 

 structed I saw first at the Kansas State Agricultural College in the 

 winter of 1925-26, and last spring with the classes just cited. It is 

 vastly superior to the older methods, and affords a direct contact 

 between the teacher and the students that gives the earnest students 

 advantages that they could never have had before. They are kept on 

 the alert at every moment. Some of the boys used to go to sleep 

 under the old, simple, lecture system. To think of the army of young- 

 people being trained in this way at the present time almost satisfies 

 my mind as to the supply of teachers and investigators in the immedi- 

 ate future. 



Another note. — Last night (November 22, 1929) I addressed the 

 Association of Teachers of Biology of New York City. More than 

 three hundred were present. There was only a handful of outsiders 

 like Stuart Gager of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and A. L. 

 Melander of the College of the City of New York. I spoke of the 

 importance of making vastly more of entomology in the teaching of 

 biology in the schools, principally perhaps in the high schools. 1 

 have hitherto been thinking largely of university laboratories, and 

 of course they dominate the schools to a large degree. But perhaps 

 after all, if there is a pull from the schools — a strong one- — the 

 colleges will begin to open their eyes. Melander, an excellent ento- 

 mologist, told me that there is no entomology taught in New York City, 

 neither at Columbia, at the New York University nor at the College of 

 the City of New York. He explained this in large part as the result of 



