108i PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Mycology, etc., from a broad or Imperial point of view is also desirable. 

 In my opinion these conditions are fulfilled at Pusa. If, however, ade- 

 quate provisions are made, it will be possible to keep the specimens 

 in as good a condition as it will be possible to do elsewhere. 



^ (Sd.) C. S. MiSEA. 



' ' "We consider that as far as the Agricultural side of the Scheme is 

 concerned, the work of the Entomological Assistants in the Provinces 

 is better controlled and directed through a Provincial Entomologist 

 than through a Deputy Director of Agriculture, necessarily preoccupied 

 with his own work. We consider also that no provision has been made 

 in the sell erne for the training of Indians for posts in the Superior Service.* 

 As regards officers coming under Class II of Mr. Fletcher's scheme, we 

 consider that any grade less than Es. 100—150—15—300, 300 — 25—500, 

 will fail to attract the best men required for efficient work in the Pro- 

 vinces as well as for final recruitment into the Imperial Service on 

 attainment of the maximum of the grade. 



We also consider that unless the Provincial Entomological Staff 

 is also made Imperial, it would seriously detract from the merits of a 

 Centralised Entomological Eesearch Institute. 



(Sd.) T. V. Eamakrishna Ayyar, 

 (Sd.) K. Kunhikannan, 

 (Sd.) Y. Eamachandra Eao." 



With regard to this Committee Eeport, no alternative scheme was 

 submitted to the Committee and I take it that no one has any other 

 scheme to propose. 



The Committee is unanimous regarding the desirability of the centrali- 

 zation of research work in entomology in India, and when one considers 

 the demand for investigational work in entomology in connection with 

 Agricvdture, Forestry, and Medical and Veterinary Science in India 

 and with the more systematic side of the subj ect, as well as the enormous 

 extent of the subject of entomology generally, which renders it quite 

 impossible for any one worker to be really a master of more than one 

 small section of the whole science, and when one further commences 

 to multiply the various workers in these sections by the number of 

 Provinces into which the Indian Empire is divided for purely adminis- 



* This sentence was amended at the General Meeting to read as follows : — Provision 

 should be made at the Central Entomological Institute for the reception of a limited 

 number of post-graduate students desirous of acquiring a knowledge of the methods 

 employed in entomological research work. 



