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morphological and physiological. He should know something about chemistry. He 
should be able to read French and German. He should be able to speak and write 
good English. 
General zoologists seem to pay little attention to insects. That is no reason why 
entomologists should pay no attention to general zoology. Insects are but animals 
and, considered even more broadly, but organisms. There are fundamental prin¬ 
ciples of biology that apply to all organisms, to all life. These fundamental prin¬ 
ciples should be known to entomologists. They can then be specially applied to 
insects. 
Teachers of young entomologists should see that their students get all the general 
education they can compatible with the time needed for special training in entomology. 
Modern science, taking its cue from Pasteur, is breaking down the artificial barriers 
set up between such special fields as biology and chemistry, zoology and botany, 
zoology and entomology. A man may be a specialist in entomology, but yet not 
totally ignorant of other fields of science. Let us make our future entomologists 
broad and sound scientific men. 
I want to thank you for giving me the last place this afternoon in this 
symposium because you leave to me the very simple function of gathering 
together and knotting the threads of discourse from the speakers that 
have preceded me. 
You have had presented to you most of the important angles—proba¬ 
bly you would have had all of them if Dr. Howard had replaced the 
absent Dr. Quaintance and if Dr. Riley had been here—from which the 
subject of our symposium could be approached. You have heard al¬ 
ready of the major things that you need to have called to your attention 
specifically, so I have the function, as I have already suggested, of simply 
trying to point out the general significance of all of that we have heard. 
That significance is as apparent to you as it is to me; it is, that we 
want and that we need soundly educated men and women to be teachers 
or students or workers in entomology. The more widely informed, the 
more broadly educated, the better the entomologist, and the more 
effective the entomologist will be. 
I could have approached my discussion this afternoon with a little 
more confidence if there had not been keenly brought to me very re¬ 
cently, some of the consequences of my detachment from entomology in 
the last few years. The consequences of that detachment were brought 
clearly to my attention last night when speaking at a little gathering of 
the friends of Mrs. Comstock, the master of ceremonies, Dr. Weed, 
introduced me as that “late entomologist, Dr. Kellogg.” 
In the days when I was a live—or at least a living—entomologist, I 
received a letter from Dr. Howard, which made me very proud. I 
still remember that letter today. This letter contained a sentence 
