February, '12] WASHBURN: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS o3 



that he has done his best, and therefore, makes his bow, retiring with 

 an untroubled conscience, thanking our faithful secretary for his 

 helpful services in connection with the programme of this meeting. 



Before stopping, however, I must say a few things which are in my 

 heart to say at this moment. We all join, I know, in the enjoyment 

 of the good-fellowship evidenced on the occasion of these meetings, 

 quite apart from the gain we experience in information as to new 

 facts. And, after all, it is our attitude toward each other, — toward 

 our fellowman, that really counts in the long run. Think of many of 

 our present members! Look back into the past also and you will 

 realize how much the personalities we have known meant for us. Let 

 us, therefore, while retaining our high ideals of work and efficiency, 

 entertain a warmth of regard toward each other, which will dull, in a 

 measure, the keen edge of criticism; and let us seek to find the good in 

 our fellowman rather than his weakness. May we not forget that 

 good work, for its own sake, is the best incentive, and further that 

 honesty and generosity are the corner stones underlying altruism. 

 Above all else, remember that courtesy and cultivation, gentleness 

 of manner and refinement of thought are in no way hostile to practical 

 work, and that, although a man may have a high degree, if he has 

 attained that purely by excellence in a special line of work, an.d has 

 not obtained with it the breadth of culture for which that degree 

 stands, he fails in reflecting the credit upon the institution granting 

 the degree which he otherwise would. 



Many of us were fortunate enough to enjoy, in our early training, 

 the helpful association with teachers, not only of scholastic ability, 

 but also markedly sympathetic, gifted with a largeness of mind and 

 heart, w^hich made them, and still makes many of them, a power for 

 good amongst their students and in the community in which they re- 

 side. These rare and gifted men will not always be with us. Some 

 of them we have already lost, and as time goes on all will have 

 sooner or later, to retire from the field they have so ably filled. 

 Manifestly it is the duty of all, and particularly the younger entomol- 

 ogists, to carry on that enthusiasm for work, that spirit of generous 

 self-sacrifice w^hich made association with their teachers so helpful and 

 delightful. It is for each succeeding generation of entomologists to 

 keep alive and pass on to their successors this holy fire, kindled by 

 our illustrious predecessors. 



Vice-President Ball: The constitution provides that the discus- 

 sion of the President's address shall go over until the next session, so 

 we will go on with the programme and the President will take the chair. 



