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the encouraging outlook and the attainable station of Entomology 
among allied branches of science and in world activities generally. Al- 
tho considerable intermittent thought has been directed to the subject 
above, it is but natural to regret that a panacea cannot be found to 
ameliorate and remedy the many difficulties which are most certainly 
encountered in the pursuit of our profession wherever and however one 
may be engaged. 
A review of wonderful accomplishments and of work replete with charm 
and precision in the past thirty-five and more years under limitations 
which often seriously hampered the progress of our most determined 
workers is most reassuring, but one who boldly tries to look into the 
future places himself in a precarious and assailable position, particularly 
if he should take liberties with the pet theories and beliefs of his peers. 
However, it can be asserted fearlessly that every thinking economic 
entomologist, be he veteran or novice, has experienced moments of 
misgiving and of conservative contemplation on what the future holds 
for his branch of science and for himself as a participant in its develop¬ 
ment. Would that I had the remarkable foresight of a Tennyson who 
in his “Locksley Hall,” written in 1842, foretold “the nations’ airy 
navies grappling in the central blue,” and following on a few lines in 
the same poem wrote the oft quoted words—“Science moves, but slowly, 
slowly, creeping on from point to point.” Just below we find another 
finely calculated thought as follows— 
Yet I doubt not thro’ the ages one increasing purpose runs, 
And the thoughts of men are widen’d with the process of the suns 
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, 
And the individual withers, and the world is more and more. 
In line with Tennyson’s thought and doubtless in accordance with 
the procession of time, each of us shall play his part, add his mite to the 
sum total and finally move on. But how large and of what weight and 
influence shall the individual contributions be? Will they hinder and 
retard normal development or will they accelerate and quicken the pulses 
of our activities, rapidly, accurately, and with painstaking nicety fitting 
into the great scheme of world advancement? Is our chosen branch of 
science to remain in its present somewhat somnolescent state in which 
its very name is everywhere misspelled and its scope is but vaguely 
understood and generally misapprehended, or shall we adopt reasonable, 
efficient and palatable methods to attract and hold the public in a pro¬ 
foundly interesting and gripping study of living creatures? Altho the 
major development of our science has been contemporary with that of 
