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activities lamentably fail to meet the whole need. The Museum should 

 have enough expert curators to keep classified and in order, the available 

 material in every group of insects, and to furnish identifications and 

 other aid to economic entomologists and other workers in every State. 

 Should a sufficient curatorial force be supplied, however, it would be 

 helpless in the present crowded condition of the department. There is 

 hardly room to move around, and almost no space for new cabinets. 

 The only way out seems to be through the erection of a new building of 

 suitable size; fireproof, but not necessarily of any great architectural 

 pretensions. 



Granting the building and the curators, with suitable rules and 

 arrangements to ensure the proper care of all the collections, what 

 more should be demanded? Undoubtedly collectors and students 

 would present or bequeath their materials on a scale previously unheard 

 of, because of the great services they had received from the Museum 

 and their confidence in it as a repository of types and other priceless 

 specimens. This, however, would not suffice. Funds should be available 

 for explorations within the United States and abroad, to discover insects 

 hitherto unknown or unrepresented in the Museum. 



With curators, building, and adequate collections, we are still con- 

 fronted by another urgent need. The results of the work done must be 

 made available to scientific men in every part of the country. This can 

 only be brought about through the creation of adequate publishing 

 facilities, insuring the reasonably prompt appearance of each work 

 completed. At the present time authors hesitate to undertake large 

 monographs not knowing when they will see the light of publicity, nor 

 indeed whether they will ever do so. 



Prepared by the Committees to investigate conditions and needs 

 of the United States National Museum. 



Entomological Society of America: American Association Economic 



T. D. A. CocKERELL, Entomologists: 



Professor of Zoology, University of John J. Davis, 



Colorado. In charge, Japanese Beetle Project, 



Herbert Osborn, New Jersey State Department of 



Research Professor, Department of Agriculture. 



Zoology, Ohio State University. Vernon L. Kellogg, 

 Wm. Barnes, Secretary, National Research 



Surgeon, Decatur, Illinois. -o p pp. ^ 



Wm. M. Wheeler, State Entomologist, New York. 



Dean Bussey Institute, Harvard Herbert Osborn 



University. Research Professor, Department of 



J. G. Needham, Zoology and Entomology, Ohio 



Head, Department of Entomology, State University. 



Cornell University. E. D. Ball, 



State Entomologist, Iowa. 



Committee. 



(Approved and adopted at St. Louis, Missouri, by the Entomological 

 Society of America, on December 30, 1919, and by the American Association 

 of Economic Entomologists, on January 2, 1920.) 



