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available resources may be concentrated. (3d) A workable plan for 

 cooperation among entomologists, with other scientists, with public 

 and private agencies and with the general public must be developed 

 and supported. 



Education and Training 



The matter of education and training is one to which considerable 

 attention may well be given. Economic entomology is a science 

 intimately related not only to all other biological sciences, but also to 

 many of the other sciences. Since it reaches out in its great variety of 

 adaptations and touches almost every vocation of life, it would seem that 

 any person who has given the subject earnest thought would advocate 

 a broad and fundamental training along all biological lines for the person 

 who would enter the field of economic entomology. Never in the 

 history of education have our educational institutions and research 

 laboratories offered better opportunities than they now offer for the 

 student to receive this broad and fundamental training. In many of 

 these institutions there are teachers of excellent training, broad vision 

 and high ideals. Every year there are entering the field some splendid 

 3^oung men, well trained in science, and full of enthusiasm and zeal, 

 who have caught the proper inspiration and have the right attitude in 

 research. But is this any reason why our educational system should 

 not be studied to ascertain if the basic studies are being offered ? How- 

 ever, it is not my purpose to discuss this important problem, because 

 growing out of Dr. Ball's admirable address given at the thirty-first 

 annual meeting, there is the Committee on Policy, under which there 

 is a committee on education, whose problem it is to study our educa- 

 tional system to discover whether the basic and fundamental subjects 

 in the training of students are being offered and required. I look 

 forward to a report from this committee that will be of vital importance. 



Research 



Out of the lessons and experiences of the recent war came an un- 

 precedented recognition of the value of research. Never before have 

 the nations, particularly our own, been so willing to give encourage- 

 ment and support to research. Never before have there been so many 

 well trained men engaged in research, and so many great economic 

 problems. On the other hand, is there not a large amount of lost 

 motion? Is there not a lack of organization, cooperation and coordina- 

 tion? Are not a large number engaged on research problems of minor 

 importance, and many working on problems and getting nowhere, and 



