I06 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'll 



In Illinois Professor Forbes has a building devoted entirely 

 to entomology. It is not a very large building, but it is suffi- 

 ciently commodious and the same interest in the work is 

 shown. In strictly entomological courses this year there are 

 85 students, of whom 13 are graduate students working in 

 advanced courses. The instructors are — one professor, one 

 assistant professor and two laboratory assistants. Excellent 

 courses are given, and good men are being turned out. 



Out in Nebraska Professor Lawrence Bruner started in the 

 autumn of 1888 with three students. During the past year 

 (1909-10) there were 160 students in the first semester and 

 142 in the second semester in the school of agriculture, while 

 in the college work there were 21 students throughout the 

 year. At the date of present writing there are 2t^ students 

 registered in college courses, while the school of agriculture 

 has not yet started. Professor Bruner has one assistant pro- 

 fessor and a laboratory instructor. 



Such information as this might be continued for pages. 

 This is sufficient, however, to indicate the advances that have 

 been made and the sound condition in which we find instruc- 

 tion in economic zoology being carried on at the present time. 

 It may be well to suggest here that if any criticism is to be 

 made of the training that economic zoologists are receiving 

 in our institutions it is that sufficient stress is not laid upon 

 the necessity of learning the methods of field work. A young 

 man coming from a university or an agricultural college know- 

 ing his insects well and well fitted to teach, is at a great dis- 

 advantage in going into practical work if he has had no field 

 experience, and also if he does not understand agriculture, 

 horticulture and the most important art of meeting and hand- 

 ling men. 



It will appear from what has been said that the Massach- 

 usetts Agricultural College has borne her full share, and the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College in this connection means 

 Professor Charles H. Fernald, later with his son Henry. He 

 came here in 1886, just before the founding of the agricul- 

 tural experiment stations. His published works, both in pure- 



