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research work. One of the best teachers I ever had in entomology did 

 his major work in zoology. This simply emphasizes the points brought 

 out by Dr. Sanderson, that you cannot expect a man who has had 

 special training along just one particular line to succeed in others 

 unless he has had first the fundamental training in science. 



If a man has had deep and fundamental training, and has the brains 

 and capacity to do research work, I don't care whether he had twice 

 as much zoology, chemistry, or physics than he had of entomology, 

 he will make a valuable man in entomology, providing, as I said before, 

 he has the proper stuff in him to make an entomologist. 



There are men here, who, when they w^ere students in my depart- 

 ment, complained because they were urged and even compelled to 

 take more chemistry, physics, plant pathology, agriculture and Ger- 

 man, because they felt that they were not getting enough entomology. 

 I am sure that these same men now feel that these subjects have con- 

 tributed much to their success. 



President Ball resumes the chair. 



Mr. W. C. O'Kane: This whole subject is one that is vitally 

 important to every man here. We have listened to a splendid address 

 by Dr. Ball, and in past years to other helpful addresses that bore 

 somewhat on the same subject, including those by Sanderson and by 

 Herrick. But we haven't yet carried the thing through to that which 

 is concrete. If Dr. Headlee's plan of a committee of ten can material- 

 ize into something substantial, it will be a real step forward. 



We have spoken of the need of more fundamental, broad training for 

 entomologists, and at the same time we urge specialization. These 

 two things may seem to be incompatible. But are they? Do they 

 not go together? In other words, should a man not have a broad 

 foundation to start with and should he not then specialize in the partic- 

 ular line to which he is adapted? I wish that entomological training 

 might be on the same basis as that of doctors; that a man might have 

 four years of broad collegiate study and then have three or four years 

 of specialized training after that. You can't put both of those things 

 into four years of college. That is our fundamental difficulty in ento- 

 mology, just as it is in various other professions. 



In our investigational work we need to seek more of the cooperative 

 help of investigators in other lines. 



There are very few of the big problems today in entomology that 

 do not include phases of chemistry or meteorology or physics or 

 botany. The specialists in those lines should share in the inquiry. 

 Take the problems that Dr. Ball has mentioned here. Practically 

 every one of them should be undertaken as a cooperative project,, 

 with competent specialists working with the entomologist. 



Vice-President O'Kane take the chair. 



