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graduate work at Cornell; Hunter received both his bachelor's and 

 master's degrees from the University of Nebraska; Phillips took his 

 bachelor's degree at the Allegheny College and his doctorate at the 

 University of Pennsylvania; Burgess is a Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College man. 



A special word of commendation should be said of the six able 

 men who have come into the service from the Ontario Agricultural 

 College at Guelph, Canada. 



The occurrence on the list of five men from Yale might at first sight 

 seem strange. One of them, C. R. Dodge, was Glover's only assistant 

 in the seventies, and graduated from Yale in the class of 1874. The 

 other four are readily accounted for bj^ the fact that they attended the 

 Yale Forest School and are engaged in forest insect investigations. 



Those who have had any experience with the U. S. Civil Service 

 Commission and the laws which govern it will understand very w^ell 

 what is meant by state apportionment, and it often happens that the 

 government is unable to get the services of the men who have passed 

 the highest in examinations, owing to the fact that the states from 

 which they come have their quotas in the service already filled. From 

 every view7)oint except the one of practical politics this is unfortunate. 

 It may be granted, however, that so far as the entomological service 

 is concerned it has not worked very badly, and it is true that the man 

 w'ho passes the best examination is not necessarily the best man in, 

 say, a field laboratory. 



I remember once in the early days of the investigations of the cotton 

 boll weevil I was asked by a member of the Committee on Agriculture 

 of the House of Representatives "Why do you not employ Southern 

 men on this investigation — men famihar with the cotton crop and with 

 everything connected with it?" My reply was to the effect that the 

 Southern States did not educate men in entomology. That condition, 

 however, is changing, and the following statement of the geographic 

 distribution of the men and the colleges which they represent will indi- 

 cate that there is a pretty fair representation on the force of all sections 

 of the country. The statement is as follows: 



From colleges in the Eastern States 113 



From colleges in the Central States 63 



From colleges in the Western States - 31 



From colleges in the Southern States 23 



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It will be readily understood that with some of the institutions like 

 Beloit, Bucknell, Bowdoin and Dartmouth colleges and some of the 

 others, the men did not go to them for training in entomology, but for a 



