1072 rnocEEDiNGS of the TninD entomological meetdtg 



Sardar Harchand 

 Singh.* 



may be, or showing tliem figures and Lllustrations or dry specimens iu 

 the cabinet, does not do. On the other hand, when once the student 

 is shown the Aphids, the mealybugs and scales or caterpillars in the 

 field, no student of average intelligence will make mistakes about them. 



The laboratory work required of the students would be confined to 

 the insects collected by the students themselves. They should be 

 expected to rear those which can be reared and as the rearing goes on 

 they should be made to make notes on life-history. This is the place 

 where they can easily be taught the differences between a bug and a 

 moth and those between a moth and a beetle or those between a fly 

 and a beetle. 



All measures of control are based on life-history and habits and 

 the students' attention should be particularly drawn to those points. 



If it is thought that entomology does not warrant so much time 

 to be devoted by the students, in answer I may say that by the method 

 which I advocate, viz., studying entomology mostly in the fields, the 

 students whUe engaged in entomological observations, unconsciously 

 make very valuable observations on the crops themselves. The obser- 

 vation concentrates their attention on the crop. Or, to put it inversely, 

 whUe carrying on their work in the fields the students should be en- 

 couraged to make observations on the insect and fungal pests. They 

 should collect those insects which should be under rearing so that the 

 students may have an opportunity of following tjie insects in their 

 course of life-history. Rearing can be done in batches, e.g., six boys 

 rear the leaf-roller, another batch of six may rear the stem-borers and 

 so on, whUe all can see the insects being reared by the whole body of 

 boys. The staff to help the students should be a demonstrator and a 

 laboratory keeper. The rearing will be done vmder the supervision of 

 the demonstrator. The students should be required to visit the rearing 

 place compulsorily once every day to see how the insects progress. If 

 they camiot spare the time to feed the insects and clean the cages, the 

 laboratory keeper can do that for them. 



I propose a Resolution : — 



" That the Report of the Committee appointed to consider the question 

 of Entomological Education in A^Ticultual Colleses be approved." 



I second this Resolution. 



[The Resolution, on being fid to the Meeting, was carried unanimously.'] 



I suggest that cabinets of the various insect-pests and the life-histories 

 of the insects of particular localities be prepared for use in schools. In 

 Mysore we circulated such cabinets and they created very great interest. 



