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was accomplished, due to the lack of any well-thought-out plans be- 

 tween the entomologists of the interested states and the Federal Bureau. 

 As the result of this more or less of a hit and miss proposition, we have 

 scarcely arrived anywhere with the most fundamental aspects of the 

 green bug problem. At the present time there is a difference of opinion 

 between the federal entomologists and those of Kansas as to the origin 

 of these outbreaks. The federal entomologists and the entomologists 

 of Kansas do not agree with the pubished statement of the state ento- 

 molgist of another state as to the origin of t.he small outbreak last 

 spring in southeast Kansas. The green bug problem is one that can- 

 not be worked out in a single state, and the entomologists will never 

 get at the bottom of the situation until they decide to get together on 

 a whole-hearted, well-developed, cooperative plan. When this is 

 done and the origin of the outbreaks are definitely known, they can 

 then expect to render effective service along the line of efficient control. 



Many examples could be given by a large number of entomologists 

 of the efficient work and effective service rendered by cooperative 

 experiments. Several have attended regional conferences and field 

 meetings, and know that they are highly desirable. They know that 

 out of these conferences constructive activities have grown, whereas 

 if it had been left to the initiative of the individual, no important 

 result would have been accomplished. 



I firmly believe that one's greatest inheritance is individual initiative, 

 and in all this work I do not favor any step that would discourage the 

 initiative of the investigator nor do I favor any plan that would lead to 

 the establishment of anything t.hat savored of autocratic control. But 

 it does seem to me that entomologists must learn to work with others 

 and that there can be a closer cooperation between state and federal 

 entomologists without jeopardizing in the least the freedom or the 

 reputation of either. Along this line I am particularly grateful for 

 the recent organization of the Crop Protection Institute and believe 

 that the Association of Economic Entomology, by endorsing the Crop 

 Protection Institute and placing itself on record in favor of this organiza- 

 tion, took a big forward step, just as it did when it formally approved 

 of and promised its support to the National Research Council. 



Cooperation Between Entomologists and Other Scientists 



While the economic entomologist recognizes the fact that his science 

 is tremendously broad and intricate, and in its many aspects is in- 

 timately related to all the biological sciences, he has, nevertheless, 

 given very little attention to the relationships with other scientific 

 workers, and has proceeded with his insect problem as if it were one 

 for the exclusive attention of an entomologist. 



