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INTRODUCTION. 
Our aim is to be in touch with every worker in India and to invite co¬ 
operation and mutual help. Elementary and advanced teaching in 
entomology is also given at Pusa and at no other place in India at the 
present time. 
For many years, the Indian Museum, Calcutta, was the centre of 
entomological work, where a special staff was devoted to this subject, 
including the economic aspect. At the present time, the economic 
work has been transferred to Pusa, and systematic entomology takes 
its place as one branch of the systematic zoology which forms the work 
of one section of the Musuem. 
Collections of insects are preserved there, are constantly added to 
and are sent to specialists to Europe, just as the Pusa collections are. 
There is a large exhibit collection open to the public and the reference 
collections, while not open to the public, are generally available to work¬ 
ers in entomology. 
Forest entomology is solely dealt with in the Forest Research 
Institute, Dehra Dun, by the Imperial Forest Zoologist and his staff, 
and all enquiries regarding insects injurious to forests are referred there. 
The study of insects injurious to tea is the work of the Entomologist to 
the Indian Tea Association stationed at Hilika, Assam. 
Apart from minor and inconsiderable collections in Provincial 
Museums, the only other public collections exist at the rooms of the 
Bombay Natural History Society; members of this society refer specimens 
to the Committee who, if the Society 5 s collection and library cannot 
furnish the required information, refer them to either of the above Indian 
Institutions or to Entomologists in Europe. 
Excepting private wmrkers who own private collections, there are 
no other centres of entomological activity in this country. 
Publications dealing with entomology in its different aspects are 
issued as follows : The Imperial Agricultural Department issues, 
from Pusa, the “ Agricultural Journal of India, ?? in which are contained 
articles and notes relating solely to those insects injurious to crops or 
to those of economic value. Other and similar work is issued in 
bulletins ; the.more scientific or lengthy work is issued in memoirs and 
purely popular and useful information as leaflets. 
