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At the close of the World War the French Government appreciated 

 the vital necessity of increasing her agricultural products, and added 

 funds were given to the Ministry of Agriculture for expenditure 

 along profitable lines. These regional stations in agricultural ento- 

 mology resulted or were more adequately supported financially. Mar- 

 chal has told me that after the war he had difficulty in finding men to 

 place at the head of these stations, as there were practically no men 

 trained in economic entomology in France. He had, therefore, to 

 pick out men who could most readily acquire a proper knowledge and 

 who had. been trained scientifically as a preliminary although mainly 

 in other directions. For example, Raymond Poutiers, who was placed 

 in charge of the Insectarium at Menton, although he had collected 

 Lei)idoptera as a boy and was a meml>er of the Entomological Society 

 of France, was really a trained industrial chemist; and Robert 

 Regnier, who was placed at the regional station at Rouen, although 

 an entomologist as a boy, had studied especially oceanography. Both 

 of these men, however, as well as several others, found in economic 

 entomology a field where everything they had ever learned came into 

 play, and were fascinated with the possibilities of the great field 

 opened up to them. 



The reputation which Doctor Marchal has made during his long 

 term of office, largely by his discoveries in the field of pure science, 

 has been a great impetus to the recognition of the value of economic 

 entomology in France among scientific men in general. This reputa- 

 tion has become world-wide and has done much to dignify the science 

 in the minds of thinking people. 



The Agronomical Institute has completed elaborate research lab- 

 oratories at Versailles and in this admirable installation economic 

 entomology has received full consideration. Research laboratory 

 buildings have been constructed which are quite the best in existence 

 down to the present time. The assistant on whom Doctor Marchal 

 relied in the planning and superintendence of this installation was 

 Dr. B. Trouvelot. I visited the new structures in late August, 1927. 

 and later Doctor Trouvelot received a traveling fellowship from the 

 International Education Board and came to the United States where 

 he spent many months, partly at Cornell University and partly in 

 visiting field stations. He later proceeded to Hawaii, japan, China, 

 and India, and returned to Paris from the East. Another assistant 

 who had for a number of years been Marchal's cJicf dcs travaux, 

 P. Vayssiere, visited the United States during the summer of 1928 as 

 a delegate from the Ministry of Agriculture to the Fourth Interna- 

 tional Congress of Entomology, and was able during his stay in this 



