PROCEEDINGS OF THE TUIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING lOSl 



(3) recommends that the educational authorities shcuM enlist the 

 help of entoniologi(^al workers in th3 preparation cf such 

 accounts in their readers or text-booiis." 



I second this Resolution. Mr. Kunhi 



Kannan. 



[We Resolution was -piil lo (he ileeiing and carried ■unaniinousli/.] 



92.— THE ORGANIZATION OF ENTOMOLOGICAL WORK IN 

 INDIA. 



We now come to the last subject on our Agenda-paper, the orgaui- nir. Fletcher, 

 zation of entomological work in India and in the first place I may perhaps 

 explain why this subject was placed on the list of Agenda after the 

 programme was primed. When Sir Claude Hill, the Hou'ble Member 

 in charge of the Revenue and Agriculture Department, was at Pusa 

 last month I showed him the programme of subjects for discussion at 

 this Meeting and he asked me whether we would not discuss my organi- 

 zation scheme, to which I replied that my scheme had alreacty gone 

 up to Government officially and that subsequent proceedings seemed 

 to me more a matter for executive action. Sir Claude Hill however 

 said tliat Government would welcome any discussion on it at this 

 Meeting, at which so many entomological interests would be represented, 

 and it was therefore included in the prtigramme. 



The C|uestion of the means of improvement of entomological work, 

 and particularly of entomological research, has been in my mind for 

 many years and you must not think that this proposal of mine is a 

 hasty or ill-considered one. Since taking over the duties of Imperial 

 Entomologist in 1913 I have visited all the Provinces with a view to 

 acquiring a first-hand knowledge of their requirements and of how these 

 may best be met and I may remind you that I have myself served as 

 Government Entomologist in the only Province that has yet created 

 Buch a post. I have been able therefore to regard this question not 

 only from the point of view of what is best for the Indian Empii'e as a 

 whole but from the Provincial aspect also. One's first idea is, perhaps 

 naturally, the creation of Provincial Stafi's. but more mature considera- 

 tion convinced me that better progress would be made by an equal 

 number of men working together rather than by the same number of 

 men working separately — in other words, by a strong Imperial Staff 

 rather than by numerically equal but much less efficient Provincial 



