president's address. 17 



tion took up the matter, and published the proceedings, as 

 the Journal of Economic Entomoloyy, upon a business basis, 

 paying an annual subscription towards its publication. 



In an address like this, it is impossible to enumerate even 

 the many well-known writers in the United States, but a few 

 might be mentioned, such as Prof. S. A. Forbes, of Urbania, 

 Illinois, Prof. I. B. Smith, of New Jersey, Prof. W. D. 

 Hunter, of Dallas, Texas; Prof. Comstock, and the late M. 

 V. Slingerland, of Cornell University, Prof. C. W. Wood- 

 worth, of the University of California, Laurence Brunner, of 

 Nebraska, Wilmon Newell, of Baton Rouge, and Albert 

 Koebele, of California. It may be noticed that the most 

 friendly relations exist between the different State Entomolo- 

 gists and the Federal officers ; and in many of the State 

 Experiment Colleges, they carry out investigations together, 

 and special agents are often sent out, at the request of the 

 State authorities for experts to help them in their work, such 

 as Woglum's fumigation of citrus trees in California in 1908, 

 and the Gypsy Moth Commission in Massachusetts. 



The great agricultural interests of Canada make insect-pests 

 an important question, though they have an advantage in 

 fighting them, in the intense cold of their winters. The late 

 Dr. James Fletcher, who held the dual position of Entomolo- 

 gist and Botanist to the Experiment Farms, from 1884 until 

 his death in 1908, did a great deal to advance the status of 

 economic work, and published many valuable reports. Dr. 

 C. Gordon Hewett, his successor, has been appointed Domin- 

 ion Entomologist, and has done some good work on house-flies 

 and other pests. 



In the Hawaiian Islands, there have been probably more 

 entomologists employed at one time than in any other place 

 of the same size in the world. There are three different staffs 

 at work ; those employed at the Federal Experiment Station ; 

 the officers of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry ; and 

 the officers of the Laboratories of the Sugar Planters' Asso- 

 ciation. Mr. David T. Fullaway is entomologist of the 



