WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY HOWARD I5I 



In the discussion of Professor Harned's address, the writer said 

 that he had just written something on the suhject of entomology in 

 the South ; that he was going to tear up what he had written and write 

 it over again when the presidential address should be pul:)lished. 

 Since then he has decided to leave it as it was and to add some state- 

 ments from the address and to express his great appreciation of Pro- 

 fessor Harned and his work. 



I must add another paragraph in order to mention an interesting 

 paper by Wilmon Newell read at the February, 1929, meeting of the 

 Cotton States Branch of the Association of Economic Entomologists. 

 It was entitled " Comments on Entomology in the South during the 

 Past Twenty-Five Years." The paper is an interesting though brief 

 summary, and mentions a number of names of younger men in addi- 

 tion to those we have already noticed, but does not touch upon the 

 si;l)ject of sectional education. In this paper Mr. Newell, modestly, 

 does not mention his own very important work except by referring 

 impersonally to the results obtained by the Crop Pest Commission 

 of Louisiana with powdered arsenate of lead and to the demonstra- 

 tion by the Commission (really by himself) in 1909 of the fact that 

 the boll weevil could be profitably poisoned. Great credit should be 

 given to Mr. Newell for this work and also for the remarkable work 

 he has done in Florida culminating with the great struggle now going 

 on (January, 1930) against the Mediterranean fruit fly. 



In a paper entitled " The Modern Trend in Entomology " read by 

 Mr. Newell before the Science Seminar at College Station, Texas, on 

 February 8, 1929, he gave a very broad consideration of the general 

 problem, and in his section on " Eradication " includes the following 

 paragraph : 



Unfortunately, attempts at the eradication of introduced insects in the 

 United States have not been characterized by general success, but rather by 

 temporizing and delay while the coveted opportunity has slipped away. 



It is a very striking fact that only a few months after this paper 

 was delivered Mr. Newell was confronted with the appearance of 

 the fruit fly in Florida, and went at the emergency without temporiz- 

 ing and without delay. 



Economic Entomology in Caijfornia 



California is one of two States in the Union which might be 

 entirely self-supporting. It contains practically every climate, every 

 kind of soil, abundant mineral resources, and can grow all things 

 needed for human support. It has had but a short history as an agri- 



