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general education, their real training having come from outside interest 

 in the subject and from experience after joining the Bureau force. 

 And this suggests the truth that, no matter how sound a man's college 

 training has been, he begins to learn the things that count most only 

 after he has got out into the government service or into that of one of 

 the states. There is room for improvement in courses in entomology 

 in most of our institutions, and our teachers in entomology, as in other 

 branches, notably in the thirty-seven different kinds of engineering 

 science, should constantly study the markets for the brains of the men 

 they are training. This is an important reason why these meetings of 

 ours, not only of the Association of Economic Entomologists, but of 

 the great body of scientific and practical men who come together each 

 year under the auspices of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, are so valuable, since they bring the teachers and the 

 laboratory men and the field men together; and if the curricula of 

 educational institutions are not frequently changed as a result of infor- 

 mation gained at these meetings they should be. 



The time is coming before many years when the best education even 

 in economic entomology will be gained only by supplementary travel- 

 ing scholarships. Down to the present time Dr. Andrew Carnegie, 

 among his many great benefactions to humanity, has been responsible 

 for the only travehng scholarships of this kind. Through the Central 

 African Research Committee and the Imperial Bureau of Entomology 

 he has brought to this country from England Messrs. A. Rutherford, 

 E. H. Strickland, G. H. Grosvernor, C. W. Mason, M. A. MacGregor 

 and A. H. Ritchie, and from British Guiana, Mr. G. E. Bodkin. 

 Through the writer, he has brought over Dr. K. Escherich from Ger- 

 many and Dr. Paul Marchal from France. All of these have come to 

 America because of American prominence in this work of ours. None 

 of us have been sent to other countries to study economic entomology 

 because we have in general the best teachers at home. But the time 

 is coming when other countries will come to the front in this direction 

 and when our most promising young men will be sent to foreign teach- 

 ers to round out and complete their training. 



When last summer, with Marchal, I visited the Bussey Institution 

 of Harvard, Cornell, Chicago, Illinois, California, and Stanford, I was 

 enormously impressed by the great advantages which the student of 

 these days has over the student of twenty years ago, but it is certain 

 that, great as these educational advantages in our line are today, those 

 of tomorrow Avill be vastly greater. 



Nevertheless we must look at Riley and Hopkins and Webster, and 

 conclude that while education educates, it's the man who achieves. 



