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  PKOCEKDINGS 
  OF 
  TITF, 
  FOIT-RTII 
  ENTOAfOLOGICAI, 
  MEETING 
  

  

  as 
  tliey 
  illustrate 
  very 
  strikingly 
  tlie 
  trend 
  ol 
  modern 
  tlioiiglit 
  in 
  economic 
  

   entomology. 
  

  

  There 
  was 
  general 
  agreement 
  that 
  the 
  special 
  training 
  of 
  the 
  economic 
  

   entomologist 
  should 
  be 
  based 
  on 
  a 
  liberal 
  education 
  in 
  pure 
  science. 
  

   A 
  wide 
  outlook 
  is 
  essential 
  in 
  the 
  student. 
  The 
  extent 
  to 
  which 
  his 
  

   training 
  in 
  the 
  field 
  of 
  pure 
  science 
  is 
  practical 
  must 
  naturally 
  vary, 
  

   ))iit 
  it 
  is 
  of 
  primary 
  importance 
  that 
  he 
  should 
  be 
  acquainted 
  with 
  the 
  

   sources 
  of 
  information 
  and 
  should 
  learn 
  when 
  to 
  apply 
  for 
  information 
  

   to 
  other 
  specialists 
  and 
  should 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  appreciate 
  their 
  points 
  of 
  view. 
  

   A 
  point 
  of 
  considerable 
  interest 
  was 
  the 
  almost 
  unanimous 
  agreement 
  

   of 
  economic 
  biologists 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  necessity 
  for 
  a 
  thorough 
  training 
  in 
  

   the 
  principles 
  of 
  agricultural 
  science 
  (or 
  in 
  horticulture, 
  forestry., 
  etc.). 
  

   No 
  economic 
  entomologist 
  who 
  is 
  not 
  well 
  acquainted 
  with 
  the 
  cultural 
  

   practices 
  of 
  tlie 
  crop 
  with 
  which 
  he 
  deals 
  can 
  hope 
  to 
  devise 
  practical 
  

   methods 
  for 
  the 
  control 
  of 
  its 
  pests. 
  Whether 
  the 
  emphasis 
  be 
  laid 
  

   on 
  the 
  pure 
  or 
  the 
  applied 
  science 
  in 
  tlie 
  entomologist's 
  course 
  of 
  training, 
  

   it 
  must 
  be 
  remembered 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  man 
  who 
  counts 
  and 
  not 
  the 
  method. 
  

  

  The 
  days 
  when 
  the 
  only 
  weapons 
  for 
  dealing 
  with 
  plant 
  diseases 
  

   were 
  the 
  tracing 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  life-history 
  and 
  the 
  destruction 
  of 
  the 
  para- 
  

   site 
  at 
  some 
  part 
  of 
  its 
  life-cycle, 
  or 
  the 
  prevention, 
  of 
  infection 
  by 
  the 
  

   use 
  of 
  repellents, 
  protective 
  materials, 
  etc., 
  are 
  rapidly 
  disappearing. 
  

   The 
  discussions 
  that 
  followed 
  the 
  subjects 
  of 
  "Resistence 
  of 
  Plants 
  to 
  

   Insect 
  Attacks," 
  "Artificial 
  versus 
  Natural 
  Control," 
  and 
  the 
  general 
  

   papers 
  on 
  insect 
  pests, 
  showed 
  the 
  aspects 
  from 
  which 
  the 
  question 
  

   of 
  pest 
  control 
  is 
  now-a-days 
  viewed. 
  The 
  impression 
  I 
  gained 
  was 
  

   that 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  pest 
  cannot 
  be 
  dissociated 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  

   host, 
  or 
  from 
  the 
  external 
  conditions 
  governing 
  both. 
  The 
  ecological 
  

   and 
  ])hysiological 
  outlooks 
  are 
  most 
  necessary 
  in 
  the 
  investigator 
  

   who 
  has 
  to 
  evolve 
  lines 
  of 
  research, 
  for 
  it 
  is 
  becoming 
  evident 
  

   tliat 
  permanent 
  control 
  of 
  crop 
  pests 
  will 
  be 
  secured 
  mainly 
  by 
  

   modified 
  cultural 
  rules 
  ; 
  and 
  that 
  these 
  will 
  be 
  the 
  product 
  of 
  the 
  

   team-work 
  of 
  experts 
  in 
  several 
  branches 
  of 
  natural 
  science. 
  

  

  Fletcher. 
  We 
  are 
  very 
  much 
  obliged 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Beeson 
  for 
  giving 
  us 
  this 
  first- 
  

  

  hand 
  account, 
  as 
  the 
  printed 
  Report 
  of 
  this 
  Conference 
  is 
  very 
  brief. 
  

   Regarding 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  Review 
  of 
  Aj) 
  plied 
  Enlomologij 
  there 
  can 
  be 
  

   no 
  difference 
  of 
  opinion. 
  The 
  Imperial 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Entomology 
  has 
  

   done 
  most 
  excellent 
  work, 
  both 
  in 
  abstraction 
  and 
  in 
  research 
  in 
  Africa. 
  

   The 
  Bulletin 
  has 
  contained 
  little 
  Indian 
  material 
  as 
  we 
  have 
  our 
  own 
  

   ])ubli(,'a,ti()us, 
  perhaps 
  too 
  many 
  of 
  them. 
  But 
  in 
  other 
  countries 
  such 
  

   facilities 
  do 
  not 
  exist. 
  If 
  the 
  work 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Bulletin 
  had 
  been 
  

   scattered 
  in 
  odd 
  reports 
  of 
  various 
  African 
  Administrations 
  there 
  would 
  

  

  