18 president's address. 



Federal Station; Mr. E. M. Ehrhorn has succeeded the late 

 Alexander Craw as chief of the Entomological Department of 

 the Board of Commissioners ; and Prof. Perkins holds a simi- 

 lar position at the Planters' Offices. 



Most of the entomological work in South America has been 

 in connection with the destructive locusts of the Argentine ; 

 and one of the most important reports published is by Prof. 

 L. Brunner, in 1898, when he was commissioned by the mer- 

 chants of Buenos Ayres to investigate the habits, and suggest 

 methods of dealing with these pests. During the last two 

 years Mr. C. H. T. Townsend has been engaged by the 

 Chilian Government to investigate the insects damaging the 

 cotton-plant. 



After the annexation of the Philippine Islands by the United 

 States, a Bureau of Science was founded, called the Bureau 

 of Government Laboratories ; its title was changed to the 

 Bureau of Science in 1905. It has issued six volumes of its 

 Journal, to which C. S. Banks has contributed some valuable 

 reports upon the insect-pests of tropical plants. 



In Cuba, at the Estacion Central Agronomica, there were 

 two entomologists on the staff at Santiago de la Vegas, Dr. 

 W. T. Home and J. 8. Houser, who have written on the 

 insect-pests. 



Australia has not been behindhand in regard to the 

 advancement of Economic Entomology. Before any official 

 Government Entomologists were appointed. Sir William Mac- 

 leay had contributed some notes on insect-pects to the Pro- 

 ceedings of this Society; and Mr. Frazer S. Crawford, of 

 Adelaide, had published valuable observations upon scale- 

 insects and their parasites. Mr. W. M. Maskell, though 

 working in Wellington, New Zealand, must be considered as 

 one of our pioneers ; for his papers upon scale-insects, in 

 which the majority of the native coccidfe are described, wei'e 

 started during the seventies. The visits of Professors Koebele 

 and Webster to Australia, from the United States, in 1880- 

 81, and their search for the parasites of Icerya furchasi, the 



