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Fletcher. 



summer Head quarters of the Chief Commissioner of the Central Pro- 

 vinces, is also easy by rail. As for provision for special investigations 

 on tea, coffee, cinchona in South India, Assam and Burma, I thini:, 

 the requirements would be amply met with, by the estabhshment of 

 field laboratories of special workers on the subjects as considered by 

 the Committee. Besides this, I think, the proximity of the Bureau 

 to a Central Institute Uke Pusa deaUng in coguate branches of Agri- 

 culture, Chemistry. Bacteriology, Botany, Mycology, etc., from a broad 

 or Imperial point of view would be found desirable. A future worker 

 on insecticides or chemotropism of msects would like to be in frequent 

 personal touch with the head or workers in the Central Chemical Bureau. 



" In view of the above, I beg to submit the following to be appended 

 to the minutes of the Committee regarding the localization of the future 

 Central Bureau of Entomology in India : — 



'' In view of the function that the Central Entomological Bureau is 

 expected to fulfil in the future it is desirable that it should be located 

 in or near a central place easy of access to all workers in entomology 

 from different parts of India. Its proximity to an Institute dealing 

 with cognate subjects of Agricultural Bacteriology, Chemistry, Botany, 

 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. " 



In their note to the Committee Report Messrs. Raraakrishna Aj^ar, 

 Kunhi Kannan and Ramachandra Rao have also raised the question of 

 the provision of training for Indians. This point was not raised in 

 Committee or we might have said something about it. As it was, we 

 were considering the question of centralization more from the point 

 of view of research. I do not know at present how this question of 

 training can best be provided for. I feel strongly that to make a really 

 first-class entomologist you must at least start with a man who has 

 an innate keenness for the subject and that it is useless to put classes 

 of students, who have not got this aptitude inborn in them, through 

 courses of instraction and expect to turn out uniform and first-class 

 results. We may be able to pick up a few really keen men from here 

 and there and give them Special training, but that is quite a different 

 thing from regular teaching courses. Another thing is that the proposed 

 Central Institute is intended to be prunarily a Research Institute and 

 the first thing k e want at present is to find out mformation before talking 

 of imparting it to others. 



At least facilities should be afforded for attracting research students. 



