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exposées dans la première circulaire annonçant la création de ces 
Congrès. 
« Notre principal désir est d’amener les entomologistes en con¬ 
tact plus étroit, d’une part, avec la zoologie générale et, d’autre 
part, avec les applications pratiques de leurs propres études. C’est 
dans ce but que nous proposons de tenir un Congrès entomologique 
tous les trois ans, environ quinze jours avant chaque Congrès zoolo¬ 
gique triennal, de sorte que les résolutions et conclusions d’intérêt 
général puissent, si on le juge nécessaire, être présentées à la dis¬ 
cussion du Congrès zoologique suivant. 
» De plus, il nous semblait avantageux que les entomologistes 
venant de pa}^s lointains pussent assister aux deux Congrès. » 
The Hon. Walter Rothschild considers that it would be 
advisable to hold the Entomological Congress every two years on 
account of the great number of questions which arise in so large a 
field as that of entomology. This will be specially felt now, at the 
commencement of the new era created by the participation of so 
many entomologists in these Congresses. Moreover, the questions 
connected with medical and economic entomology are accumul¬ 
ating rapidly in number and importance from day to day. For 
these reasons he would wish to shorten as much as possible the 
time intervening between the Congresses and he thinks that a bien¬ 
nial period would be the most suitable. However, he afterwards 
agreed that the preparation of the reports and other necessary 
work of the Permanent Committee would preclude the meetings 
being held ottener than every three years. 
Prof. E. B. Poulton said that the number of scientific meetings 
of different kinds is increasing to such an extent, that it becomes 
absolutely necessary to allow three years to intervene between 
two successive Entomological Congresses. He did not consider 
that the arguments in favour of holding the Congress in the same 
year on the Zoological Congress had very great weight, while 
on the contrary many who would wish to attend both Congresses 
would find the expense and loss of time more than they could 
manage. The speaker cordially agreed with Mr. Rothschild’s 
opinion that the date of the second Congress should be two 
years hence. This date would being the Entomological Congress 
in 1912 into the year before the Zoological Congress. After 1912 
