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PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIED ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Mr. Bamakrishna 

 Ayyar. 



Mr. Eunhi Eannan. 

 Mr. Ghosh. 



Mr. Senior- White. 



Mr. Fletcher. 



H^. Ramakrishna 



Ayyar. 



Mr. Fletcher. 



each month we could get out three or four such Bulletias every year 

 without any difficulty. 



The difficulty about these Bulletins, each containing one hundred 

 Notes, is that you have to wait to complete the hundred Notes each 

 time. How will these Notes appear ? 



The Second Hundred Notes are appearing under no definite author- 

 ship. Those Notes which have been contributed from outside have 

 the contributors' names appended to them. 



Another question that arises in connection with this proposed Journal 

 is, who would run a paper of the nature suggested ? 



I think that the question of such a publication might well be post- 

 poned until the question of an entomological Bureau has been decided. 



It is important that we should reach the general public and now we 

 cannot do so. As I have said, the vernacular papers do not publish 

 anything, or if they do publish it is usually wrong. 



I do not see that this proposed Journal would improve things in that 

 respect. At present our Agricultural Department Bulletins and Memoirs 

 and Reports have a very large circulation and are sent to all the prin- 

 cipal newspapers in India but many of these publications are never 

 even noticed in the newspapers. 



It is dangerous to send Bulletins, etc., to be abstracted by editors 

 of newspapers. We should send them ready-prepared articles. There 

 are other difficulties as regards running such organs as Mr. Ghosh 

 suggests. The subscription list of Spolia Zeylanica is not more than 

 120. If a paper, as suggested by Mr. Ghosh, is decided upon, then it 

 should be obhgatory for all the members to send their contributions 

 only to this paper and nowhere else, and all systematists should be 

 asked to be prepared to publish the work done on Indian material in 

 this Journal. 



I am afraid that there are serious practical difficulties about that 

 proposal so long as the entomological workers in India are scattered 

 about in different Departments and Services as they are at present. 

 Probably the systematists would not object as a rule to have their 

 work published in India and I think this should be done wherever 

 possible. But, as a matter of fact, to give an instance, when I put 

 up Dr. Hancock's paper on Tetriginse fi'om the Pusa Collection for 

 pubhcation ui our series of Memoirs, there were objections raised to 

 its inclusion on the ground that it was systematic work. 



What is the difference between a Memoir and a Bulletin ? 



We have always refrained from attempting a definition of either, 

 but, roughly speaking, the series of Memoirs is intended to take in 



