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Mr. H. a. Gossard: Mr. Sanderson has very nearly said one or 

 two things that I thought I would like to say. The visions that Dr. 

 Ball holds up have always been a very attractive sort of thing to the 

 entomologist and it looks as if we ought to be able to do some of the 

 things that he suggests. We will be able to do them by and by, but 

 there are some things we must learn to do, in cooperation with people 

 who are not entomologists at all, before there is any hope of accom- 

 plishing such things. We cannot, for instance, exterminate the boll- 

 weevil, and there are a great many other things that we are failing 

 to do — because for some reason, good or bad, we have not secured the 

 cooperation of the powers that be, to the extent that we can do justice 

 to large sections of people and to the individuals composing such sec- 

 tions and at the same time accomplish our projects. Until we reach 

 that point where we can do justice to the cotton grower who is deprived 

 of his privilege of growing cotton, not alone do justice to the cotton 

 section, but to the individuals in it, there isn't much hope of putting a 

 thing of that kind across. In other words we must cooperate with 

 economic workers, sociological workers and perhaps with constitu- 

 tional lawyers. Anyhow we must do a cooperating "stunt." 



Now there is no use talking about an entomologist getting an educa- 

 tion that will fit him to draft the laws, etc., — he may not be even able 

 to organize a system to carry these into effect, but he will have to 

 learn to cooperate with the people who can before there is any reason- 

 able hope of accomplishing these things, and whenever we do cooperate 

 fairly, there is a reasonable and a practical basis for such a hope. 



Capt. E. H. Gibson: Mr. Chairman, it has been my pleasure to 

 attend a number of these meetings and to hear various very admirable 

 presidential papers. No doubt there have been results come from each 

 one of these but I contend that we have not had enough positive, direct 

 results. 



Now, Dr. Ball has given us many suggestions, and the remarks that 

 have followed by Dr. Headlee, Dr. Felt and others, all tend to the 

 right direction. Let me suggest, if I may, that this association have 

 a committee which might be termed an entomological training coop- 

 erative committee, if for nothing more than to offer its services to the 

 various colleges and universities throughout the country, for the pur- 

 pose of bettering the fundamental training of the entomologist. 



I would lay this suggestion before the older members of the associa- 

 tion, men who have had more experience in the profession than I have, 

 to make a motion to this effect, if they see fit. I think the time is ripe 

 to do that. It may not be well to have this committee formed im- 

 mediately, but I believe a definite step should be taken to carry out 

 the suggestion that Dr. Ball and the other members have made this 



