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Stories of insects in simple language and illustrated by coloured plates Harchand Singh, 

 should be prepared for use in our schools and also be inserted in the 

 elementary text-books. They are sure to interest the children. 



The ignorance of the facts of insect life is really very great and some- Mr. Kunhi 

 thing must be done. Kannan. 



It is no use making cabinets and having books if there are no teachers Mr. Afzal Husain. 

 to explain them. In all school primers there are chapters on animals and 

 insects, but the teachers find them useful only for dictation as they 

 contain some difficult technical words that children cannot spell correct- 

 ly. We must first train the teachers. 



In Baroda we have village museums. Mr. Patel. 



[The general opinion of the Meeting was that theoretical lectures are 

 of no use.] 



As a member of the Ceylon Board of Agriculture I have to deal ^^- Senior-White. 

 with the raiyat in connection with insect pests and my experience shows 

 that it is little use to have coloured plates and books ; you must show 

 the actual insect. The best thing is to teach general entomology and 

 agriculture in the training colleges for teachers. 



I have dealt with this subject in my paper on " Some aspects of ^^- Ghosh. 

 Economic Entomology in India." 



In the Central Provinces we have been keeping show-cases in villages. Mr. Ehare. 



What about that reader for use in the Central Provinces and for Mr. Fletcher. 

 which I wrote some chapters on insects ? 



I do not know anything about it. Mr. Khare. 



91.— SOME ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY IN INDIA. 

 By C. C. Ghosh, B.A., Assistant to the Imperial Entomologist. 

 In this paper it is proposed to deal with a few ideas which have 

 occurred to the writer with regard to Economic Entomology in relation 

 to Agriculture in India. The question is dealt with from the view- 

 point of the Indian cultivators. The aim of the Agricultural Economic 

 Entomologist is to protect the crops against insect pests. The success 

 of his work depends on the adoption of proper and efficacious methods 

 of control or prevention. The efficacy of the methods depends on the 

 thoroughness of the study of the pests in all their relations, including 

 proper experiments and verification of the preventive and remedial 

 measures suggested by the life-history and behaviour of the insects 

 concerned. Even when the methods recommended to deal with them 

 are based on such study, another essential condition of success is their 

 proper application. This presupposes on the part of the constituents 



