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embryony! This brilliant piece of work was really the result of a 

 most thorough, broad and extensive preparation on the part of Mar- 

 chal, as an embryologist. The significant feature of the whole matter 

 to me, is the fact that the training was doubtless acquired without 

 the material thought in mind that it might produce results of a pro- 

 found practical bearing on certain fundamental biological problems. 



Sir Ronald Ross's successful search for the species of mosquito 

 acting as a reservoir for the malarial germ sounds almost hke a fairy 

 story and as interesting as an Arabian Night's tale. Only a man of 

 vivid imagination and of profound faith in himself and his judgment 

 engendered by a broad and vigorous training could ever have persisted 

 in the search and brought it to so brilliant a conclusion. 



Not one of these disco-veries or pieces of work was the result of 

 accident or of haphazard experimenting. Each was the deliberate 

 outcome of a broadly trained and imaginative mind. Each was the 

 fruition of long and arduous study in vn.de fields of knowledge and 

 each has marked an epoch in the historj^ of economic entomology and 

 its relation to the human race. What one of us younger men feels 

 that he has prepaied himself broadly enough, intensively enough, 

 culturally enough, and imaginatively enough to contribute as large a 

 share to the advancement of the science? 



I have been greatly interested in reading again the papers on the 

 teaching of entomology presented to this Association in 1911 by four 

 of the pioneer teachers of this subject in the United States. Again, 

 I have been profoundly impressed with the fact that all of them, each 

 unknown to the other, greatty stressed the need of a broad, founda- 

 tional training for successful work in economic entomology. It is 

 well worth while to quote briefly from these papers. The first speaker 

 says, "Thus early I gained a hint of the scope of entomology and was 

 led to reahze that the practical application of the science should be 

 based upon a broad and accurate foundation of scientific knowledge." 

 The second speaker says, "For the intending graduate student, there- 

 fore, I would urge a broad undergraduate course with plenty of chem- 

 istry, physics and botany but with sufficient attention paid to the 

 cultural subjects and those connected with our duties, as citizens, to 

 give breadth in every way, languages as tools aside from their cultural 

 value should not be omitted." The third speaker emphasizes the 

 desirability of a broad training in these words, "There is, therefore, 

 the necessity that we should have trained investigators for the acqui- 

 sition of further knowledge concerning insects, the discovery of which 

 is one of the most important duties of modern entomology. For the 

 purpose of this kind of instruction, it is absolutely necessary that there 

 be thorough training in related sciences as well as in the general foun- 



