650 Pomona College Journal of Entomology 



A])art from all otlicr considerations the inii)ortance of the relation of these 

 Journals to our educational interests is unquestioned. They have been the direct 

 means of producing better horticultural commissioners, of better fitting students 

 for advanced work along these imjiortant lines, and of furnishing an outlet for im- 

 l)ortant results obtained here through the activities of our own people. They are 

 ])ersistently holding up higher ideals in our county and state horticultural com- 

 mission work, and these ideals must be built up and held up, pointedly and 

 unceasingly. We are coming to demand as great scientific knowledge and tech- 

 nical skill in these lines as we do in electrical engineering or in industrial 

 chemistry. For this influence alone it is said that our Journals are worth all 

 that has ever been put into them and much more. 



Each year this movement in upbuilding of scientific research and technical 

 investigation has attracted to its su))port a greater and greater number of our 

 strongest men, so that as the enterprise has grown in strength and extent, there 

 has been sup])ort forthcoming. The services of many devoted men have been 

 given to it without stint and without remuneration, to match the subscriptions of 

 funds to cover the cost of publication. 



So we enter upon another year of assured existence, with high hopes, and 

 may the successes of this year make possible still other years of great work — 

 work of which all Southern California and the scientific world may be proud. 



