April, ’23] 
KELLOGG: EXTRA-ENTOMOLOGICAL STUDIES 
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which read something like this: “We are glad to find here in the Bureau 
that the young men who come to us from your laboratory seem to have 
a sound scientific training.” That was what I conducted the laboratory 
at Stanford for—to try to give sound scientific training to students in 
entomology. 
I know I required my students, very often against their will, to take 
courses in general zoology and invertebrate zoology and embryology and , 
general botany and plant pathology and mycology, and they had to do 
all these things before they could graduate from the department of 
entomology. 
And it has been my good fortune in these late and declining years, or 
this period after my decease as an entomologist, to find that some of 
my students have stood up rather well as broadly educated and soundly 
grounded workers. That I believe is the goal we ought to try to reach 
by our education of young entomologists. 
The extra-entomological studies that these men or women may take do 
not need definitions. They can be comprised in a general form by 
simply saying: Let us give them all the education that we can, compatible 
with the time which they should devote to their special undergraduate 
work in entomology. Their graduate work will go on, as long as they live; 
they will always be learning. We want them to learn in those extra- 
entomological studies or groups of studies to recognize that insects are 
but animals and finally, that animals are but living organisms, and that 
there are great principles and facts which concern all organisms. These 
the entomologist ought to know if he is going best to understand insects # 
I have always been rather astonished and often grieved at the curious 
indisposition of general zoologists to pay attention to insects. Heaven 
knows, when they come to count up the animals that they have to do 
with, they will learn that the insects occupy, with regard to numbers, a 
major part of the great kingdom of animals. But over and over again, 
I have noted the courses in general zoology to be singularly deficient in 
reference to insects. If the course happens to be given in Kansas, they 
go in particularly strongly for the sea anemones and star fishes! 
I remember that my teacher of zoology in the University of Kansas got 
leave of absence to go to the Pacific Coast, and there he ravaged the 
coast for miles and practically removed all the marine fauna from this 
coast, put it into barrels which he brought back, and for the rest of my 
college career I was pegging away on these pickled sea anemones. As a 
matter of fact Kansas had always ready for him and us plenty of in¬ 
sects to study, especially grasshoppers and chinch-bugs. But I will 
