JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



APRIL, 1921 



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The high prices and urgent need of maximum production during the 

 war stimulated to a noteworthy degree extension w^ork, both field work 

 and the distribution of suitable literature, and there has been by no 

 means an over-development of this type of activity. There has not 

 been, unfortunately, a corresponding development in providing for the 

 publication of that type of original research which covers considerable 

 ground and requires somewhat extensive bulletins or reports. There 

 have been large and greatly needed developments for extended research 

 without corresponding opportunity for publication and as a consequence, 

 the results of many important investigations are being held until some 

 future time. This is an unfortunate condition not only because all 

 such data are unavailable in large measure to associated workers but 

 on account of the reflex action it is bound to exert upon investigators, 

 most of whom are far from well paid and rightly attach great importance 

 to opportunities for early publication. A continuance of this condition 

 must inevitably react upon investigation because only the most optimis- 

 tic and idealistic can do their best when over-shadowed by the dis- 

 heartening probability of long deferred publication. Original work 

 is fundamental to progress along scientific lines and unless the morale 

 of the workers is maintained by adequate provision for both study and 

 publicity, there is bound to be more or less halting or "marking time," 

 a deplorable condition w^hen the urgent need of such studies is recog- 

 nized. There are splendid groups of investigators throughout the 

 country deeply interested in many problems, some of immediate and 

 others of less direct importance and all making for unrivalled efficiency, 

 except for the one weak point mentioned above. It is very largely as 

 though we had a costly machine splendidly adapted to its purpose and 

 run with a loose connection with the driving wheels, which latter, in 

 scientific work, compare somewhat closely with adequate opportunities 

 for publication. 



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