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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



THE ACADEMIC TRAINING OF THE ENTOMOLOGISTS IN 

 COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS OF 

 THE UNITED STATES 



By W. E. Britton, Neio Haven, Conn. 



In planning this paper, the present writer intended merely to supple- 

 ment the statistics presented before this association by Dr. L. O. 

 Howard at the Atlanta meeting a year ago and published in the Jour- 

 nal OF Economic Entomology, Vol. VII, page 274, June, 1914. It 

 was not intended to discuss the best methods of training, or what 

 should be studied in preparation for entomological work; but simply 

 to ascertain what proportion of these men are college-trained, and what 

 colleges sent them out into the world. At first the scope of the paper 

 included only the entomological workers in the agricultural experi- 

 ment stations and teachers of entomology in the agricultural colleges. 

 But, there are certain state entomologists, and state horticultural in- 

 spectors, as well as teachers in colleges and universities which are not 

 state institutions, all doing creditable work in entomology, and it 

 seemed best to include them. 



As the data concerning some of these men were not at hand, a cir- 

 cular letter was sent out October 19, in most cases addressed to the 

 head of the entomological department of each institution, requesting 

 that information be given regarding the academic training of each 

 entomological worker in the department. Of more than sixty such 

 letters sent out, replies were received from about fifty. From American 

 Men of Science the writer has been able to obtain data regarding the 

 more prominent entomologists who did not reply, but as a rule could 

 not find there any information about their assistants. 



The figures given here are therefore incomplete because the neces- 

 sary data about a considerable number of men could not be obtained, 

 and these men are therefore not included. 



From the start I have avoided names which surely must have been 

 included in Dr. Howard's figures and which would be duplicated 

 if admitted here. Yet I cannot get away wholly from this duphca- 

 tion. It must be remembered that Dr. Riley performed consid- 

 erable state work before he became Government Entomologist; that 

 his nine Missouri Reports are, and always wiW be, classics in economic 

 entomology, because his work was so well done and because it was pioneer 

 work; yet Dr. Riley was for so long a time entomologist of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture that we shall always think of him 

 in that connection rather than as state entomologist of Missouri. 

 Likewise Hopkins, V^^ebster, and Quaintance were all engaged in state 



