PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING lOSl 



(3) recommends that the educational authorities should enUst the 

 help of entomoiogical workers in the preparation of such 

 accounts in their readers or text-books." 



I second this Resolution. Mr. Kunhi 



Eannan. 



[The Resolution iras put to the Meeting and carried unanimously.] 



92.— THE ORGANIZATION OF ENTOMOLOGICAL WORK IN 

 INDIA. 



We now come to the last subject on our Agenda-paper, the organi- Mr. Fletcher, 

 zation of entomological work in India and in the first place I may perhaps 

 explain why this subject was placed on the list of Agenda after the 

 programme was printed. When Sir Claude Hill, the Hon'ble Member 

 in charge of the Revenue and Agricultiu-e Department, was at Pusa 

 last month I showed him the programme of subjects for discussion at 

 this Meeting and he asked me whether we would not discuss my organi- 

 zation scheme, to which I replied that my scheme had alreadj^ gone 

 up to Govermnent officially and that subsecjuent proceedings seemed 

 to me more a matter for executive action. Sir Claude Hill however 

 said that Government would welcome any discussion on it at this 

 Meeting, at which so many entomological interests would be represented, 

 and it was therefore included in the programme. 



The question of the means of improvement of entomological work, 

 and particularly of entomological research, has been in my mind for 

 many years and you must not think that this proposal of mine is a 

 hasty or ill-considered one. Since taking over the duties of Imperial 

 Entomologist in 1913 I have visited all the Provinces with a view to 

 acquiring a first-hand knowledge of their requirements and of how these 

 may best be met and I may remind you that I have myself served as 

 Government Entomologist in the only Province that has yet created 

 such a post. I have been able therefore to regard this question not 

 only from the point of view of what is best for the Indian Empire as a 

 whole but from the Provincial aspect also. One's first idea is, perhaps 

 naturally, the creation of Provincial Staffs, but more mature considera- 

 tion convinced me that better progress would be made by an equal 

 number of men working together rather than by the same number of 

 men working separately^in other words, by a strong Imperial Staff 

 rather than by numerically ec[ual but much less efiicient Provincial 



