1915] Quantitative Entomology 383 
This emphasizes in a striking manner the prominence we 
gave to the occasional and exceptional matters which will 
come to take more nearly their proper place when this tendency 
towards quantitative work has progressed further. 
I trust while those present may not be ready to adopt 
all or any of the suggestions of this paper that the underlying 
idea will meet with your approbation and that perhaps some 
may be stimulated to take what is here urged as the future 
progressive work along the lines in which the trend of the science 
must proceed. 5 
