190S ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 31 



ENTOMOLOGY IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE, 

 CORNELL UNIVERSITY, JULY 6-31, 1908. 



By Wm. Lochhead, Macdonald College, P.Q. 



It was somehow or other unconsciously taken for granted by all students 

 of insect life that Entomology would form one of the parallel courses olfered 

 during the summer session of the Graduate School at Cornell University. 

 To have a School of Agriculture at Cornell without Entomology was hardly 

 possible, even thinkable, for did not four-fifths of all the Experiment Station 

 workers and teachers in Entomology in agricultural colleges receive their 

 inspiration and early training from Professor Comstock and his able staff' of 

 co-workers? So it came about naturally that Entomology was placed on the 

 programme of courses, as soon as it was decided that the Graduate School 

 would be held in 1908 at Cornell. 



The task of arranging for speakers, topics and dates fell mainly on 

 Prof. Slingerland, who also acted as chairman of each meeting. It was 

 finally decided to have a lecture every morning (except Saturday and Sunday) 

 from 9.30-10.30, and seminars on Tuesdav and Thursday afternoons from 

 3 to 5. By this schedule, the horticulturists at the School were free to 

 attend, and to benefit by the course. This arrangement was welcomed, and 

 many of them attended every lecture. 



The first week was assigned to the experts of the Bureau of Entomology 

 at Washington. Dr. Howard gave two lectures on (1) "The Present Condition 

 of Economic Entomology," and (2) "Recent Developments in the Practical 

 Handling of Beneficial Parasitic Insects." Prof. A. L. Quaintance discussed 

 the deciduous fruit investigations of the Bureau of Entomology, and led a 

 large field party in a study of Mr, King's extensive orchards at Trumansburg. 

 Prof. A. H. Hopkins gave one lecture on "The "Work of the Bureau of 

 Entomology Against Forest Insects," and conducted a field trip for the study 

 of the common insects infesting trees in the vicinity of Cornell. Prof. F. 

 M. Webster concluded the lectures of the first week by an account of the 

 investigations of insects injurious to grain and forage crops by the Bureau 

 of Entomology. 



The second week was assigned to some of the most important Station 

 Entomologists. Prof. P. J. Parrott of the N. Y. Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Geneva, gave two lectures on methods in planning and conducting 

 co-operative experiments which were yery suggestive and helpful. His 

 seminar was devoted to a study of problems which were interesting him at 

 the present time, viz., the pits on apple twigs and branches, made by the 

 tree-cricket ; the pits and markings on pear fruit by membracids ; the leaf 

 blister-mite in apnle orchards ; the willow girdler. 



Prof. Slingerland described the work of an interesting plum leaf miner 

 (Nepticula), and the work of Heterocordalis malinus, a bright red bug whicb 

 distorts the leaves and fruit of the apple, preferably Greening and Ben 

 Davis varieties. 



Mr. Crosby described a new chalcid (Syntomaspis druparum) which he 

 found infesting apple seeds. 



Prof. E. D. Sanderson, Director of the Vermont Experiment Station, 

 gave two lectures, one on the publications of the State Entomologist, and the 

 other on methods of studying the Codling Moth, and conducted a seminar on 

 the Codling Moth. The work of Prof. Sanderson was highly appreciated by 

 all who took part. 



Dr. E. P. Felt. New York State Entomologist at Albany, gave a lecture 

 on the "Work and Systems in the Office of the State Entomologist," giving 



