66 AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENTS AND RESEARCH 



Assistant Chemist: Analyses of soils, insecticides, 

 plants, cattle food, etc. Students should be 

 attached to this Section under the Assistant 

 Chemist. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 



Chief Entomologist: Direction of all experiments 

 with applications of insecticides; fumigation of 

 plantation trees; general campaigns against 

 noxious insects, etc. Proposals for legislation 

 and control of the importation of insect pests on 

 plants and in seeds. Organization of industries 

 and demonstrations with regard to useful insects, 

 such as silkworms, 'bees, lac insects, etc. 



Assistant Entomologist: Examination of the life- 

 histories of economic insects, systematic classi- 

 fication, propagation of insect parasites, etc. 



Assistant Entomologist : Research in connection with 

 insect diseases and methods of insect control. 

 Students in entomology can be attached to the 

 two assistant entomologists. 



BOTANICAL SECTION. 



Chief Botanist: Introduction of new plants and the 

 improvement of existing ones. Correspondence 

 and general direction of the whole section. 



Plant Breeder, Assistant Breeder, Superintendent of 

 Experiment Farms : Mendelian selection. Investi- 

 gation into the nature and improvement of 

 economic plants. In Egypt plant breeding is of 

 most importance in the Section, as the work of 

 cotton improvement supersedes all others. In 

 countries where extensive permanent plantations 

 exist of tea, cocoa, coffee, rubber, etc., a plant 

 breeder is also necessary. Students should be 

 attached to this Section. 



Mycologist: Examination of fungoid diseases of 

 plants; advice with regard to fungicides and co- 

 operation with the Entomological Section in 

 connection with the examination of plants and 

 seeds coming from abroad. 



In order that each of the above sections should possess 

 at least one officer whose whole time can, if necessary, 

 be given up uninterruptedly to laboratory research and 

 report, routine work should be distributed as far as 

 possible among the students attached to the Section. For 

 instance, in the Chemical Section ordinary analyses of 



