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troduce them into this country has been made by Americans who have 

 studied under European masters. It seems to me, however, that the 

 term ^^economic entomology," or ^'applied entomology," is more likely 

 to take a firmer hold in Europe than is the term phytopathology," 

 in this significance, to gain ground in this country, and that will mean 

 that internationally the term '^economic entomologj^" as applying to 

 the whole field will be generally adopted. 



That side of economic entomology which relates to the carriage of 

 disease by insects has been aptly termed ^'medical entomology," and 

 is best carried on by trained entomologists. The truth of this state- 

 ment is probably seK-evident, but if a convincing argument is needed, 

 it will be found in Hunter's admirable address on medical entomology 

 before the Twentj-fiith Annual jMeeting of the Association of Eco- 

 nomic Entomologists (Journal of Econoaiic Entomology, February, 

 1913, pages 27 to 38). It is in this field of applied entomolog}" that we 

 must perhaps look for the greatest advances in coming years. 



And now at the close of 1914, after considering the results already 

 achieved, and -^dth a knowledge of the investigations under way and 

 of the men who are handhng them, with the sound instruction which 

 is being given in two score institutions of learning, with the hundreds 

 upon hundreds of clever students, many of whom will make this field 

 their life work, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that we are car- 

 rying on and will continue to carr}' on a T^dnning fight against the 

 greatest enemies of the human race. 



Mr. C. Gordon Hewitt: I would like to express my great appre- 

 ciation and full concurrence with all that Dr. Howard has said in this 

 most admirable brief resume of the present position of economic 

 entomology. I want to say for my own part that I am entirely in 

 sympathy with the remarks of Dr. Howard in the latter part of his 

 address where he spoke of merging economic entomology and plant 

 pathology under one head. Dr. Howard has pointed out that the mis- 

 use of the term originated in Europe. For many years there were not 

 in Europe economic entomologists of the same training and standard 

 as we have here and often the plant pathologist and economic ento- 

 mologist were one and the same person and the work was included 

 under the same head, particularly on the European continent. I am 

 very glad, indeed, that Dr. Howard has pointed out the importance of 

 keeping entomological work separate, because I think we ought to take 

 a firm stand at this time when there is still a tendency in certain quar- 

 ters to include entomology under the term phytopathology. While 

 we all reahze that our work is very intimately associated with plant 



