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remained until last year (1911), when he obtained the posi- 

 tion of Entomologist to the Adelaide Museum, vacant owing 

 to Mr. Tepper's retirement. So that, now, he virtually 

 retires from the ranks of the economic workers. 



In Western Australia, for some time after Lea's transfer to 

 Tasmania, there was no entomologist, until Mr. George Com- 

 pere appeared on the scene ; and, under an arrangement with 

 the Horticultural Board of California, by whom he was 

 engaged as a collector, became attached to the West Aus- 

 tralian Department of Agriculture, and worked conjointly 

 for both places. He based all his work on the finding of 

 parasites; and after travelling round the world several times, 

 in search of effective parasites of most of our insect-pests, 

 from which he claimed wonderful results, he retired from the 

 field, and is now a fruit-inspector at San Francisco. Mr. 

 Henry Newman is at present in charge of the entomological 

 work in Perth. 



In New Zealand, for many years Captain T. Broun was 

 Port Officer and Entomologist to the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, but most of his work, at any rate, latterly, was confined 

 to inspection and quarantine work. 



The Imperial Government, moving with the times, early in 

 1910, appointed an English entomologist, Mr. T. P. Jepson, 

 as Entomologist to the Fiji Islands. 



The Federal Government of Australia has also recently 

 appointed an Indian entomologist from the Imperial Labora- 

 tories at Pusa, to take charge of the work in British New 

 Guinea. 



A conference of Government Entomologists was held in 

 Sydney, in July, 1906, when representatives of South Aus- 

 tralia, Tasmania, Victoria. New South Wales, and Queens- 

 land attended ; New Zealand and Western Australia, though 

 officially invited, could not participate. Among many impor- 

 tant questions dealt with, was the enormous damage done by 

 fruit-flies, and the methods to be adopted to deal with them. 

 At the conclusion of this conference, a motion was put and 



