PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
Second Entomological Meeting held at Pusa 
on 5th to 12th February 1917. 
The first session of the Second Entomological Meeting was held at 
Pusa on the afternoon of 5th February 1917, the proceedings on the 
first day being held in combination with the Mycological Meeting which 
had also assembled at Pusa on the same date. 
The combined Entomological and Mycological Conference was opened 
by Mr. J. Mackenna, M.A., I.C.8., Agricultural Adviser to the Govern- 
ment of India, who in his introductory speech said :— 
‘Dr. Butter, Mr. FLetcHER and Gentlemen, 
*““T desire to extend to you a hearty welcome to Pusa. In the first 
place I have much pleasure in reading the following letter which I have 
just received from the Hon’ble Sir Claude Hill, Member in Charge of 
the Department of Revenue and Agriculture :— 
‘T am sorry that I shall not be able to be present at your Sectional 
Meeting of mycologists and entomologists to be held at Pusa, but it is 
quite impossible for me to get away from Delhi at the present time. 
This meeting is the first of the sectional meetings which we hope to 
develop with your assistance and it will, I hope and feel sure, be the 
precursor of many future valuable meetings of other branches, also of 
the Department. The ordinary Board meetings, which are held every 
other year—though we hope perhaps to organize more frequent meetings 
—require supplementing by sectional meetings such as the one you are 
about to hold, and I am not sure that these sectional meetings are not 
likely to prove even more valuable in their way than the general Board 
meetings. At all events, I feel quite sure that the mycologists and 
entomologists, who will meet you at Pusa, are inaugurating a system 
of very great value. Just as is the case in every other branch of our 
work, we are, of course, under-staffed, but, to a very large extent, I 
think that the shortage of men is made up by the zeal of the individual 
workers in these and other scientific branches, and it would have been 
a very great pleasure to me if I could have been present to inaugurate 
this pioneer meeting. Will you please express to the members attending 
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