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In 191 1 Dr. A. D. Imms was appointed Forest Zoologist, and made 

 a serious attempt to establish the work on a sound basis. He occu- 

 pied the post, however, only i6 months, and was succeeded by Mr. 

 C. F. C. Beeson who finally succeeded in getting the staff increased 

 and was given three Divisional Forest Entomologists as well as a 

 Systematic Entomologist. In December, 1920, Dr. M. Cameron was 

 appointed as Systematic Entomologist, and was succeeded in 1923 

 by Mr. J. C. M. Gardner. The present staff of the branch of Forest 

 Entomology consists of the Chief (Doctor Beeson), the systematic 

 worker (Mr. Gardner), two senior grade assistant entomologists, 

 three junior grade assistant entomologists, 13 field men, setters, in- 

 sectary keepers, etc., two artists, four clerks, and five servants. 



One very interesting feature of the more recent Indian work has 

 been the series of entomological meetings first brought together by 

 Doctor Fletcher at Pusa in 191 5. All the entomologists of the inde- 

 pendent States, of the planters' associations and others were asked to 

 meet at the Pusa laboratories. At this meeting they went over the list 

 of crop pests of India in systematic order, took each insect at a time 

 and went over its distribution, its food plants, and so on, all persons 

 present taking part in the discussion. No report of the proceedings of 

 this meeting was published. The experiment, however, was so suc- 

 cessful that a second meeting was called in 1917, a third in 1919, a 

 fourth in 1921, and a fifth in 1923. The attendance at these con- 

 gresses has increased, and, of those held since the first, very full 

 reports have been published. The 1917 meeting lasted a week, and the 

 results were published in a volume of 340 pages. 



The meeting of 1919 seems to have been particularly important, and 

 its proceedings have been printed in three large volumes which 

 comprise 1,137 pages and 182 plates. The proceedings of the 1921 

 meeting have been published in a volume of 401 pages with 55 plates, 

 and the fifth meeting is recorded in a volume of 422 pages and 37 

 plates. These volumes make an extraordinarily fine contribution to 

 economic entomology. 



It becomes at once evident to one who has examined these large 

 volumes that much work in applied entomology is done elsewhere than 

 under the auspices of the central Government. As a matter of fact, 

 the agricultural departments of the provinces and of some of the 

 Indian States maintain entomological staffs. Mr. Fletcher pointed 

 out in 1925, at Zurich, that in Madras, the Punjab, and the United 

 Provinces, these staffs comprised a Government Entomologist with 

 assistants. He further stated that in the other provinces there are 

 usually only one or two assistants employed in teaching entomology 

 at the agricultural colleges or in economic work in the field. 



