PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 5 
-of equal advantage both to us at Pusa and to you. We on our part 
will gladly place at your disposal our experience with regard to insect 
pests and doubtless you on your part will be able to supplement our 
information with additional facts regarding the occurrence of such pests 
-and their control in your particular areas, with benefit not only to us at 
Pusa but to your other co-workers in other Provinces. There is no 
need to say more on this subject further than to remind you of the couplet 
which you will see every month on the front cover of each issue of the 
“ Entomologist ”:— 
‘By mutual confidence and mutual aid 
Great deeds are done and great discoveries made.” 
Although we may not be able to lay claim to “ great deeds or great dis- 
-coveries ’, I hope that that will not deter us from mutual confidence 
and mutual aid. 
A Meeting of this kind is quite informal and is designed to keep 
‘touch between the various workers in order that each may know what 
the others are doing and may contribute his own observations and 
experiences to the common stock and perhaps learn a little from the 
experiences of others. 
It is now just two years since our last Entomological Meeting, which 
was attended by representatives from Madras, Bombay, the Central 
Provinces, Bihar and Orissa, the United Provinces, Assam, Baroda and 
Travancore. Burma, Bengal and the Punjab, which were not repre- 
sented at the last Meeting, have sent their Entomological Stafis to this 
-one and they will, I hope, fill gaps in our knowledge. Of the others, 
who were present here two years ago, Mr. Howlett has been absent on 
leave since July 1915. Mr. Ballard went to England on sick leave 
in August 1915 and joined the Army as an Artillery Officer ; I understand 
that he proceeded to France and is now in England again. Mr. Beeson 
has been employed on Fly Work in Mesopotamia and is still there. Tf 
he had been in India, he would probably have attended our Meeting 
this year also, but I hope that the Forest Department will be represented 
by Mr. Champion whose attendance has been requested by the Govern- 
ment of India in order that he may represent the Forest Department 
in the discussion, which we shall have later on in the week with the 
Mycologists, regarding legislative measures for the control of plant 
pests and diseases. [Mr. Champion, however, did not come to Pusa.} 
Mr. Woodhouse, who attended our last Meeting and gave us a detailed 
and most interesting account of the Agrotis campaign at Mokameh, has 
since joined the Indian Army Reserve of Officers ; he proceeded to France 
but has since returned to India and by the last account I have heard 
was at Secunderabad. At our last Meeting also the Indian Museum 
