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their relation to the National Bureau of Entomology is much the same 

 as that of the station entomologists. 



POSSIBLE COOPERATION DEMANDS CONSIDERATION 



I have discussed this matter of cooperation somewhat at length in 

 order to again bring to your attention the serious consideration that 

 has been given it by some of our most eminent and respected workers 

 in agricultural research. I am not prepared to offer any suggestions 

 as to just how better cooperation may be brought about, except through 

 a greater publicity of the work undertaken and proposed, but I do 

 most earnestly commend the whole problem to the careful considera- 

 tion of this association. The official agricultural chemists have done 

 most efficient cooperative work in a large way. Ma}- not the official 

 entomologists profit by their experience as modified to meet their own 

 needs? 



3. "To suggest when possible certain lines of investigation upon 

 subjects of general interest." This has been done at various times by 

 individuals and committees of this association. Were a committee 

 to report on the entomological work of the year, as suggested above, 

 they might very readily make such suggestions from time to time as 

 a result of their survey of the lines of work which seem most promis- 

 ing or are not receiving sufficient attention. 



4. "To promote the stud}' and advance the science of entomology." 

 As before suggested, this may be considered the "general welfare" 

 clause of our constitution under which we may proceed to do whatever 

 seems best for advancing the science of economic entomology. 



THE TEACHING OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



First let me call your attention to the phrase "to promote the 

 study." I fear that we have somewhat neglected this phase of our 

 entomological work, both in our annual programs and in our published 

 papers. For some time I have had a desire to know how entomology, 

 and particularly economic entomology', is being taught in our colleges 

 and universities, and I have had the feeling that most of us had very 

 much to learn along that line. I fear that we have given vastly more 

 attention to our investigations than to our teaching, usuallj^ due 

 to circumstances beyond our control, and that many times our stu- 

 dents have finished a course with more of a general smattering than 

 a concrete and practical knowledge of insect life and the control of 

 agricultural pests. A symposium upon this subject has been arranged 

 for this meeting, and may we not have more consideration of the sub- 

 ject matter and methods of instruction in economic entomology. 



