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Some of the Provincial Agiiculturai Colleges have served as a rather Mr. Fletcher, 

 awful warning not to lay too much stress on the teaching side too early. 

 Many of them were started in a hurry and commenced to give courses 

 before they had any knowledge of what to teach as regarded local condi- 

 tions. Teaching will come later on. 



The demand for entomologists was created in England and these jip_ Andrews, 

 chairs of Entomology were estabUshed to meet that demand. First 

 let us have a well-organized Research Institute and create a demand 

 and then in the near future education will have to be provided for. 



Surely teaching was done before the Research Institutes were started. Mr. Afzal Husain. 



The first thing is to have specialists and, if they find time, they can Mr. Andrews, 

 give courses of lectures. Mr. Lefroy's course was started as a temporary 

 measure and it was afterwards made permanent when it was found 

 successful. 



We should have a provision that if a body of well-qualified candidates Mr. Senior- White, 

 not more than about half-a-dozen, come forward, the specialists may 

 give courses of lectures. They cannot be expected to sit down and teach 

 elementary things. 



If it is in order, we should like to amend the sentence in the Com- Mr. Ramakrishna 

 mittee's Report, i.e., " We consider also that no provision has been Ayyar. 

 made in the scheme for the training of Indians for posts in the Superior 

 Service," so as to read as follows : — " Provision should be made at the 

 Central Entomological Institute for the reception of a limited number 

 of postgraduate students desirous of acquiring a knoweledge of the 

 methods employed in entomological research work."' 



If you all three, who signed this Note, are agreed to amend it in Mr. Fletcher, 

 this way, I am quite prepai ed to accept the amendment. 



This amendment exactly expresses what we want. In the Tata Mr. Kunhi 

 Research Institute, the professors do research work and also guide Kannan, 

 the research work of students. 



Mr. Andrews has taken the case of a few men who have to give a Mr. Afzal Husain. 

 long course of lectures. There are men who do research work but also 

 give a short course of lectures in their own subject. 



Training in entomology requires more than lectures. The Central Mr. Fletcher. 

 Institute should be modelled more after the lines of the very successful 

 Bureau of Entomology in the United States of America, which does no 

 teaching work as such. 



There is another aspect. Entomologists become experts after a Mr. Afzal Kusain. 

 long period of work when they are practically old men. Where are 

 the experts to be got for this Institute 1 This point has been brought 

 forward in the Report of the Industrial Commission. 



