February, ’20] 
BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS 
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The committee, in studying the problems of entomological education, finds that 
there are two quite different fields to be considered. The first of these is the general 
teaching of the subject for the benefit of the general public whether in the public 
schools, colleges or extension courses. The second field lies in the training of special¬ 
ists in entomology who are to be responsible not only for the instruction in this branch, 
but also for the imperatively necessary research which is to carry the subject beyond 
its present limits and to make secure its foundation in fundamental knowledge. The 
committee asks the assistance of all entomologists in its consideration of definite 
courses in entomology for the different needs. It also asks assistance in considering 
the desirability of fixing minimum standards of preparation, or the holding of a 
degree showing a certain amount of training in entomology, as a requisite to recogni¬ 
tion as a professional entomologist. 
Your committee recommends: 1. That all members of the Association be urged 
to give attention to the instruction now offered in secondary and rural schools in 
their respective localities to the end that the best possible instruction be secured 
under the conditions existing. 
2. That extension entomology and the extension entomologist, in all institutions 
where such officers exist, be connected directly with the department including ento¬ 
mological instruction, in order to insure the closest agreement in the activities of 
the two fields of effort. 
Through the subcommittee on research problems and standards, your committee 
is, at the present time, endeavoring to determine what are the major research prob¬ 
lems and what should be the best method of attack. Your committee asks the aid 
and cooperation of research workers in arriving at a decision as to the problems of the 
greatest value or urgency. Your committee is cooperating with the National Research 
Council, through our representative, in the development of entomological research and 
its coordination with that of the allied sciences. Your committee is undertaking to 
stimulate cooperation and coordination in research activities upon insects of regional 
importance. It feels that efforts of this kind wisely and conservatively directed 
would result in the development of regional or group projects in which the determi¬ 
nation of the factors needing investigation and the method of attack would largely 
be developed in group or regional meetings, and that conferences from time to time 
would tend to accelerate progress. 
The subcommittee on insect control began activities as a special subcommittee on 
the European corn borer and was subsequently reorganized with a broader function. 
The corn borer problem, because of its urgency, has been given special attention. 
One or more members of the subcommittee have taken part in most of the recent 
meetings, hearings and conferences in relation to this pest and have cooperated with 
various agencies. The committee has supported efforts to secure appropriations 
commensurate with the magnitude of the project, and regrets that owing to a variety 
of causes a comparatively small sum was appropriated by Congress. It has doubt¬ 
less rendered a valuable service in other directions, though it is difficult, in view of 
the cooperative character of its work, to definitely list what has been accomplished. 
It is the opinion of this committee that the European corn borer must still be 
regarded as a most important and potentially very dangerous insect in spite of the 
fact that developments in eastern Massachusetts last fall showed considerably less 
injury than in 1918, and that in New York state but one generation, with very limited 
injury, developed. 
Serious losses may be expected, in the opinion of this committee, in eastern Massa¬ 
chusetts as a rule, and if the pest becomes established in the corn belt, extensive 
injury may result. 
