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country sound teaching is going on. In the south, at Clem son College, 

 S. C, at Auburn, Ala., at Baton Kouge, La., and at College Station, 

 Texas, and elsewhere, there are numbers of students and excellent 

 courses. In the northwest it is the same. At Wisconsin there are 103 

 students and five teachers. In the small college at Bozeman, Montana, 

 there are 27 students. The men in charge of these different depart- 

 ments are all practical men. Most of them, in fact I think all of them, 

 are primarily economic workers. Many of them have been and are 

 still connected with the state agricultural experiment stations. Some 

 of them have been connected with the force of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology of the United States Department of Agriculture. Several of 

 them are still collaborators of the Bureau. It follows that these men 

 know the economic problems which confront us, and that they have a 

 broad knowledge of what is going on, not only in this country but in 

 other countries; and it follows further that the instruction which they 

 give is that best designed to bring practical results. Moreover they 

 are a harmonious and cooperative body of men. They all belong to 

 the Association of Economic Entomologists, which, through its annual 

 meetings and its standing committees is constantly facilitating such 

 cooperation. All of these men are keen to grasp new ideas and are so 

 non-conservative as to methods of teaching that they will at any mo- 

 ment introduce new features and new methods. 



In its international aspects, economic entomology is developing 

 with great rapidity and ^dll continue to do so. The Association of 

 Economic Entomologists early elected to its membership practically 

 all of the ofiicial entomologists of foreign countries, which brought 

 about a universal exchange of publications and frequent correspon- 

 dence. This has led to visits to America by many foreign entomolo- 

 gists, and many of our own men have gone abroad, so that personal 

 relationship has brought about friendships and mutual aid. There 

 are constant visits to this country on the part of younger men from 

 other countries, for study in the different lines of economic entomology, 

 and the Imperial Bureau of Entomology of Great Britain has, with Dr. 

 Andrew Carnegie's financial aid, founded a series of scholarships in 

 economic entomology which brings several specially selected young 

 Enghshmen to this country each year to study in the Bureau and at the 

 colleges and experiment stations. There are six of them in the United 

 States at the present time. They all want to go back to take part in 

 the war, but their government will not let them do so. All this will 

 bring about in the near future an increase in the solidarity of interests 

 and information and mutual helpfulness which already exists among 

 the economic entomologists of the whole civilized world. Each new 

 idea is and will be almost instantly known to all and speedily tested in 



