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JOURNAI. OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



Professor A. S. Packard graduated from Bowdoin college in 1861, and 

 later received the degrees of M.D. and Ph.D. W. H. Edwards, S. H. 

 Scudder and F. H. Snow graduated from WiUiams College in the 

 respective classes of '42, '57 and '62. 



Professor F. L. Harvey graduated from Iowa Agricultural College 

 in 1872; E. A. Popenoe from Washburn College in 1876; D. S. Kelli- 

 cott from Syracuse University; M. V. Slingerland from Cornell 

 University in 1892, and W. G. Johnson from Stanford University in 

 the same year, though having previously studied at Cornell, and at 

 Ohio State University. 



Messrs. Thomas, Uhler, Lugger, Lintner, John B. Smith, and J. A. 

 Grossbeck apparently received no college training, though Thomas, 

 Uhler, Lintner and Smith were given honorary degrees. 



Among the older workers yet with us Professor Chas. H. Fernald 

 studied at Bowdoin College, receiving an M.A. in 1871; Professor 

 J. H. Comstock graduated from Cornell in 1874. Dr. Geo. Dimmock 

 of Springfield, Mass., graduated from Harvard in 1877. Samuel Hen- 

 shaw and E. T. Cresson were not trained in colleges though Henshaw 

 received an honorary A.M. from Harvard in 1903. 



The card catalogue upon which this paper is based contains 306 

 names. Following Dr. Howard's arrangement in grouping them ac- 

 cording to the part of the country in which the colleges are situated 



and adding Dr. Howard's figures 



for comparison. 



the results 



are 



follows : 











Outside of 









Federal 



Federal 







Service 



Service ^ 



Total 



From colleges in the Eastern States 



117 



113 



230 





121 



63 



184 



From colleges in the Western States 



28 



31 



59 



From colleges in the Southern States 



15 



23 



38 



Total American Institutions 



281 



230 



511 



Total Foreign Institutions 



3 



12 



15 



No colleges 



22 



18 



40 





30^ 



260 



* 566 



Of course the efficiency of the entomological worker depends far 

 more upon the personal equation of the man than it does upon his 

 college training. No college course can quite take the place of actual 

 experience in field and laboratory. The fact that many entomologists 

 without college training have become eminent, simply means that 

 these men had the other necessary qualifications and succeeded in 



^ Figures taken from paper of Dr. L. O. Howard, Jour. Econ. Ent., Vol. VII, 

 page 277. 



