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We at the University have enjoyed his cooperation both in the research 

 work and in the teaching work. Professor Dean himself has come to 

 the University and given an entire term of lectures through one summer 

 session, and his men at different times have been with us. He has 

 demonstrated in a very clear manner in Kansas the policy which he has 

 outlined so clearly and cogently and forcefully this morning. 



I also want to second what has been said regarding the Insect Pest 

 Survey. After the Insect Pest Survey Bulletin came to us for three or 

 four months, our instructor in economic entomology in the University 

 began using it as a collateral text. It was not suggested to him but he 

 asked the privilege of taking an additional set for that puipose, and I 

 took occasion at that time to write Dr. Howard expressing our apprecia- 

 tion of the information contained. 



I have a feeling that the President's address stimulated what is already 

 growing in the atmosphere. I wish to congratulate him on the thought- 

 ful and comprehensive way he has presented the subject of cooperation 

 to us. 



Mr. W. C. O'Kane: You will remember that in dividing the various 

 portions of his address, Professor Dean spoke first of research, as indeed 

 he should since it is fundamental in any science. Then he went on, 

 however, and showed the importance of various other aspects of eco- 

 nomic entomology besides research; the relation, in other words, of the 

 economic entomologist to his public, to his fellow workers in other 

 sciences, to the industries with which he comes in contact, and so on. 



Now economic entomology is one of the two sciences in agriculture 

 that is of a corrective or remedial nature, the other one being plant 

 pathology. It is in daily comparison in the State Department at 

 Washington or in the State Experiment Stations with such constructive 

 sciences as agronomy, horticulture and so on. We are like the doctor 

 who is called in at the last minute and as a last resort and quite un- 

 willingly, and who is discharged the sooner the better. In other words, 

 our science is one which is of a corrective, remedial, preventive nature. 



Therefore, like any other such science, it has strong engineering 

 aspects. I personally believe those engineering aspects are of very 

 rapidly increasing importance at the present time in economic entomolo- 

 gy. One thin? I liked especially about Professor Dean's admirable 

 address is the fact that he made clear what those aspects are. 



Mr. H. a. Gossard: I rather wondered this morning, when Pro- 

 fessor Dean was reading his paper, if he had been up in our section of 

 the country in the last two or three years and studying what we are 

 doing. We were apparently doing, over in that quarter of the world, 

 about all the things that he was recommending, and I believe we are 

 actually getting somewhere. We have enjoyed very efficient cooperation 



