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been sufficiently studied, or there was a new way of studying the 

 problem, or the method of dealing with it, I might suggest that, 

 with the understanding that whatever experiments were made along 

 that line should be credited to me as making the suggestion. Let 

 the man who does the work- get all the credit for the work, but let 

 him give due credit to the man who made the suggestion, and then 

 if you publish in two or three states at approximately the same time 

 it will be possible to tell just what importance is to be attributed to 

 the suggestion, and the results will, of course, be of infinitely more 

 value than if the line of work were carried on by one individual only. 

 I think we ought not to go away without taking some steps toward 

 putting the president's recommendation into a tangible shape. 



Mr. Lowe: President Sanderson's address has been most inspir- 

 ing to me, as I shall go back to my work with the possibility of not 

 meeting another entomologist for a year, as I have done the past 

 year. Touching the point which Professor Osborn raised, of coopera- 

 tion, I think it is very desirable, but one that we would find difficult 

 in our work. We- are developing methods along a new line of work 

 that we could not give out to many men to work on. We want 

 accuracy of results, and in that respect I might refer to Mr. Wash- 

 burn's remarks about the interchange between entomologists at work 

 upon one line of investigation, and Dr. Headlee's paper on projects; 

 all of which I feel are going to help me a good deal in my work. I 

 thank President Sanderson particularly for his address. 



Mr. Gossard: In talking with members upon this subject I am 

 impressed with the idea that the great difficulty we have is in finding 

 some workable plan by which we can know what others are doing. 

 I do not believe it would interfere at all with the work, and so far as 

 duplication is concerned, we might profit by it. Personally, it has 

 seemed to me that duplication in publication upon some of the great 

 problems of entomology was exceedingly desirable. We called atten- 

 tion to the point, when Dr. Headlee wrote us that we really had no 

 satisfactory method for controlling the codling moth until it has 

 been worked over by a number of men. We have to work those 

 things out, each one in his own state. There are from one to a dozen 

 other great entomological problems in which we would make great 

 progress, and in which we would do more for the public good if we had 

 some sort of team work. It has seemed to us that our great difficulty 

 in advancing scientific entomology is this. We have a somewhat 

 similar condition in what used to be known as "Agriculture." It 

 was pretty generally agreed that it was a study which was sort of 

 divided off into different departments, each having its work. It 

 became scientific agriculture as the different departments worked 



