PROCEEDINGS OF THE TlllliU ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 1085 



trative purposes, you will iiud that, if expansion is to take place on 

 the present decentralized lines, we shall have thirty or forty or more 

 entomologists all working separately, each provided with expensive 

 laboratories and libraries and collections, which are necessary if any 

 good work is to.be done, and each man with his work diffused, incomplete 

 and often redundant. To me there seems no question but that an 

 equal number of men all belonging to one Central Institute would accom- 

 plish far more and far better work, because each man could be employed 

 on a particular line of work, and at far less cost to the State on account 

 of the centralization of laboratories, libraries, collections and records 

 generally. Such items as recruiting would be greatly facilitated by 

 the establishment of a centralized service on account of the more regular 

 occiu"rence of vacancies and because a centralized Service with a hicrh 

 reputation would attract a better class of candidates than odd vacancies 

 in various Services occurring at infrequent inter\'als. There are numer- 

 ousother advantages of centralization and practically no disadvantages, 

 but I do not propose to say any more on this subject now because these 

 points have been dealt with in my Note which you have had an oppor- 

 tunity of seeing. 



As regards the numbers required to commence with, this point was 

 also endorsed by the Simla Committee. As regards the dimensions 

 proposed originally in my scheme it should be remembered that those 

 numbers represented a bare minimum to commence with and were 

 largely influenced by the practical difficulty of recruiting larger nuiubers 

 of really competent men, but if the various Departments require more 

 workers (as apparently they do, the Forest Department, for example, 

 having now asked for five men instead of the three allowed for in my 

 ■scheme) than this minimum must be increased accordingly. No remarks 

 have been offered regarding the numbers proposed for work on the 

 special problems of Departments other than the Agricultural and Forest 

 Departments, not because the Committee considered the proposed 

 numbers sufficient but simply because no representatives of such other 

 Departments were present at this Meeting. As regards the rates of 

 pay proposed in the lower grades, we shall probably all agree that they 

 -err on the low side, particularly in these days, and that some increase 

 is necessary. 



There is no difference of opinion as regards the necessity for the 

 employment of the staff of the Central Entomological Institute directly 

 under the Governiuent of India. There are very few insects which are 

 respecters of Provincial boundaries and it is obvous that, to get the 

 best results, problems must be studied in as broad and imperial a manner 

 as possible. 



