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idea of these Sectional Meetings~has appealed to Government as an 
eminently practical idea, and we expect that they will become 
recurring functions. We have already had two Entomological Meetings 
and I am sure that I have the sense of this Meeting behind me when 
I say that they have both been highly successful Meetings and should 
be continued in the future and repeated at similar intervals—probably 
every two years. 
Fourthly, assuming that we shall hold another Entomological 
Meeting in two or three years time, there are a few points which you 
might think over in the interval. Two years ago we went over the List 
of Crop Pests in systematic order, taking each insect at a time and 
going over its distribution and foodplants and so on ; this time we have 
gone over the Crops and taken insect pests crop by crop. In both 
cases we have found that a period of a week or so is insufficient to do 
this with proper thoroughness, in spite of having afternoon sessions. 
I think that the next Meeting, if we have one, should last for at least 
a fortnight, holding sessions in the mornings and leaving the aiter- 
noons free for consultation of records and collections, identification of 
specimens and so on, by the visitors. The, Proceedings might also be 
simplified to some extent by the submission of written papers on 
special subjects ; that would reduce the note-taking to a great extent. 
However, you have most of you attended two of these Meetings now, 
and will come to the next one with more settled ideas of what is 
wanted. You might think over these and any other points that occur 
to you and let us know about them in good time for the next 
Meeting. 
Before the Meeting is closed I should like, on behalf of the visitors yy, Ramakrishna 
to Pusa, to express our thanks to Mr. Fletcher and the members of Ayyar.: 
the Entomological Stafi at Pusa for the great trouble they have taken 
in making this Entomological Meeting a success and in affording every 
assistance and help in the way of information in every way to us visitors 
to Pusa. We shall go away not only equipped with the latest inform- 
ation on our subject but, as Mr. Fletcher has just pointed out, with 
some ideas, which will be new to many of us, regarding points about 
which we require fuller information. We hope that this Meeting of 
Entomological workers in India will become a permanent feature of 
our programmes. The idea of holding a Meeting of this sort was ini- 
tiated and put into practice by the lnperial Entomologist two years 
ago. We Entomologists have been the pioneers in the institution of 
these Sectional Meetings and, if the idea is extended to other branches 
of the Agricultural Service, we shall have the satisfaction of knowing 
that, and, when workers in other branches of Agriculture are holding 

