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May I know if the whole of my note of dissent will be printed ? I Mr. Misra. 

 should hke to see the whole of it printed. 



There was no desii-e to curtail this note but, as I read it, I understood Mi- Fletcher. 

 that only the concluding paragraph was intended to be added. The 

 following is the full note appended by Mr. Misra to the Report of the 

 Committee :— 



" The Committee appointed to consider the question of reorganiza- 

 tion of the Entomological work in India consisted of the following besides 

 myself : — 



Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, Imperial Entomologist. 

 Mr. C. F. C. Beeson, Forest Zoologist. 



Mr. E. A. Andrews, Entomologist Indian Tea Association, Tocklai. 

 Dr. L. H. Gough, Director of Entomology, Egypt. 

 Mr. Kunhi Kannan, Senior Assistant Entomologist, Mysore. 

 Mr. T. V. R. Ayyar, Acting Government Entomologist, Coimbatore. " 



Mr. Y. R. Ramachandra Rao, Assistant to Government Entomolo- 

 gist, Counbatore, on Special Deputation on Lantana work. 



" In my opinion the localization of the Central Entomological Bureau 

 in a Central place would have far reaching effects on the future develop- 

 ment of Entomological work in India and I think shifting the work 

 from Pusa to extreme south would not secure this object. By locating 

 the Central Bureau at Coimbatore the inconvenience felt by entomolo- 

 gical workers in the North, East, and West of India would be so great 

 that they might hereafter bring to the notice of the Provincial Govern- 

 ments concerned the necessity of having a separate Bureau for the 

 North of India, and as a number of workers in Entomology are here, 

 I hope you would be pleased to obtain their views by announcing the 

 minutes of the Committee and then making a suggestion to the Govern- 

 ment, who will no doubt obtain the views of the Local Government 

 before deciding upon the localisation of the Bureau. As suggested by 

 the majority of the members in the Committee, I think, Coimbatore 

 would not meet the situation. Pusa is in one extreme and Coimbatore 

 is in the other. I think, if proper provision^ are made, it is possible to 

 keep the specimens in good condition at Pusa. The conditions of ^ 

 storage of specimens at Pusa in the past have been rather peculiar and 

 it is to these causes more or less that they have not remaiaed so good 

 as they should have been. I also think, if it is at all decided to shift 

 from Pusa, Jubbulpur would meet the requirements much better than 

 Coimbatore. It is central fit-om all parts of India, it commands access 

 to the neighbouring rice, wheat, sugarcane, cotton tracts and other 

 important crops, and access to the neighbouring Pachmarhi Hills, the 



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