SECOND REPORT 



ON 



ECONOMIC BIOLOGY 



" In no department of science does the old proverb, ' prevention 

 is better than cure/ apply with such force as in that of Economic 

 Entomology. . . . I have often been struck with the fact that many 

 of our very worst insect enemies have been introduced from abroad, 

 and that if this subject of Economic Entomology had been better 

 understood and appreciated fifty years ago, and the proper measures 

 had been taken to prevent the introduction of these pests, we should 

 at present be free from the curse of the great majority of them.' 1 



CHARLES V. RILEY. 



[Second Missouri Ann. Rpt. on Noxious and Beneficial Insects, 



1870, p. 7.] 



' Those who are responsible for agricultural investigation and 

 experimentation at the present time are faced by the fact that the field 

 over which their energies may be expended has largely widened in 

 recent years. Agricultural problems are no longer regarded as being 

 comparatively small in their scope and simple in their nature. They 

 require the assistance of many of the so-called branches of science. 

 The help of the chemist, the botanist, the plant pathologist and 

 physiologist, the entomologist, the geologist and the physicist, large 

 as it is, does not exhaust the amount of aid that is needed by the 

 agricultural investigator/' 



[Agricultural News, 1911, vol. x, p. 321.] 



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