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On motion, the ballot was cast and these officers elected for the 
ensuing year. 
There being no further business, the session adjourned at 1:30 p. m. 
Afternoon Session , Friday December 29 , 1922 
The meeting was called to order by President Sanders at 2:00 p.m. 
President J. G. Sanders: At the last annual meeting of this asso¬ 
ciation, it was voted to hold a symposium on “Standards for the training 
of men who are to enter professional entomology.” The papers will be 
presented as listed on the program and discussion deferred until after 
the last paper has been read. 
I will now call on Professor Herbert Osborn for the first paper. 
STANDARDS FOR THE TRAINING OF MEN WHO ARE TO ENTER 
PROFESSIONAL ENTOMOLOGY 
PERSONAL CONTACT WITH STUDENTS 
By Herbert Osborn, Columbus, Ohio 
Abstract 
Earlier entomologists presumably had not set standards for training. The 
problem of standards is worth careful discussion. A great part of our knowledge is 
gained through personal contact and we lose in proportion as it becomes impossible. 
The advanced courses permit closer contact; there is also contact later with station 
and extension workers. Teachers in vocational agriculture frequently have op¬ 
portunities to discover latent talent. There should be helpful contacts between 
entomologists and their assistants, partaking of the educational. There is no more 
ideal training than under the tutelage of a man of large experience. One method of 
obtaining this is through summer assignments with the Bureau of Entomology or 
Station Entomologists. 
Among the earlier workers in Entomology in America I think we 
may assume there was no thought of any set standard to be met and 
State entomologists, museum curators and teachers were employed, 
where employed at all in a professional capacity, on the basis of their 
interest in the subject and the proficiency they had shown to others more 
or less familiar with the requirements of such work. 
With an ever increasing demand for competent entomologists and 
with advancing ideals as to the qualifications necessary for efficient 
work it is natural to enquire whether it is possible to establish any 
standards to assist in the selection or recommendation of candidates 
for the varying demands of different positions. Are such standards 
as are commonly in use. in medicine, law, engineering and other fields 
available and if so can we adjust our systems of entomological training 
to meet such standards. It is a question well worth discussion, for the 
