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communicate such information to the daily and weekly and especially 

 the weekly vernacular papers. This will go a great way in popularizing 

 Economic Entomology. We therefore come to the following conclu- 

 sions : — 



(1) For the great body of non-entomological readers in India there 

 are means of diffusion of useful information and we should 

 make more use of these means than we have been doing in 

 the past. 

 (2) At present there is not sufficient means of satisfying the needs 

 of the working entomologists for whom a journal solely 

 devoted to the subject of Entomology has become a necessity. 



There is no objection to sending communications to the vernacular Mr. Ramakrishna 

 papers. But, as regards this proposed Journal, the first question is Ayyar. 

 the material and money required to run it. Is there any likelihood 

 of getting help fi'om the Government ? Considering its usefulness, 

 Government ought to help. 



I agree with what Mr. Ghosh has said regarding the scattered material Mr. Fletcher, 

 and the scattered methods of publication adopted at present and I have 

 already referred to this point in my note on the expansion of entomolo- 

 gical work in India, printed as Appendix K to the Report of the 

 Indian Industrial Commission. I consider that all entomological work 

 should be published in one set of publications issued by Government. 

 But I really do not see the necessity just at present for a Journal as 

 proposed by Mr. Ghosh. A Journal might start off well but would 

 soon break down from want of material. As things are at present it 

 is difficult to get material for publication. Some of us are too busy 

 on every-day routine and new investigations to have spare time to 

 write. In 1916 I issued a Bulletin of one hundred .short notes on Indian 

 Insects and appealed for material for a second hundred such notes. 

 Very few came in in response to my appeal and, after waiting for about 

 two years, I had to sit down and complete the second hundred notes 

 myself by writing up various life-histories and so on to complete the 

 Bulletin, which has now gone to the press. Material of the nature 

 indicated by Mr. Ghosh, as to be published in the proposed Journal, 

 can in nearly all cases be included in such Bulletins and in this way 

 we have a collected mass of material which is accessible to everyone. 



Such Bulletins are published at such long intervals as to prevent Mr. Ramakrishna 

 their utility. Ayyar. 



Not necessarily ; the frequency of publication depends entirely on Mr. Fletcher, 

 the material available. If each of you would send in only one note 

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