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is urgent need for the conservation and development of all 

 resources — life, health, food — to designate a few having a 

 close relation to applied entomolog}^ An army or navy can 

 accomplish little without the foregoing essentials. There are 

 many openings for the economic entomologist to demonstrate 

 the utility of his calling. The urgent need of better camp 

 sanitation, so far as insects are concerned, warrants an en- 

 tomological slaff attached to every large camp and hospital 

 center and associated with the medical or sanitary corps in 

 handling insect problems, particularly flies and other disease 

 carriers, though body parasites and animal pests should not be 

 ignored. These men should have a rank which would give 

 weight to their recommendations, resources which would per- 

 mit intensive studies of the entire problem if necessary, and 

 facilities for the practical application of results to field and 

 camp conditions. The work in the various localities should 

 be co-ordinated and directed by a supervising entomologist 

 in order to insure the greatest efficiency. 



It is ver}^ far from my idea to criticize directly or indirectly 

 the administration by army officials of sanitary matters in re- 

 lation to insect control in camps, and yet it seems to me there 

 is a great opportunity for the practical entomologists to ren- 

 der an invaluable service to the country, through co-opera- 

 tion and the placing at the disposal of the sanitarians, prefer- 

 ably working with them rather than simplv advising, of knowl- 

 edge which we have gained through the experience not only 

 with flies and other insects occurring, or likely to occur, in 

 camps, but also that gained from a study of other forms of in- 

 sect life and which may be of service in solving problems of 



pressing importance. 



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Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 



Mr. E. B. Williamson's Collecting Trip in Colombia. 



From an article in the Bluflfton, Indiana, Daily News, of March 15, 

 1917, we learn that Mr. E. B. Williamson returned to his home in that 

 town on March 14. He was accompanied by his cousin Mr. Jesse 

 Williamson. He left Bluffton on November 25, 1916, was joined by 

 his cousin at Colon, Panama. December 5 and, after two days in the 

 Canal Zone, touched at Cartagena. Colombia. December 8. at Porto 

 Colombia December 9. and made Santa Marta on December 12. In 

 this region they collected December 13-January 13. Leaving Baranquilla 

 December 18, they proceeded up the Magdalena River 600 miles as 

 far as the lower Alagdalena is navigable. They then went by train 

 to Mariquita, only 100 miles from Bogota, their nearest approach to 

 that city. Collecting was done near the river on the up voyage, and 



