26 pkesident's addkess. 



Mr. F. V. Theobald has been an active worker in applied 

 entomology, and has issued yearly reports, since 1902, upon 

 insect-pests, for the South-Eastern Agricultural College at 

 Wye. In 1903, the British Museum sent out its "First 

 Report upon Economic Zoology, ' ' prepared by Theobald ; 

 which was followed by the Second Report for 1903, in which 

 a great deal of information on insect-pests is included. The 

 special grant for this useful work was, however, not con- 

 tinued, so that no further British Museum Reports were 

 published, under this heading. 



In the light of Medical Entomology, we must also include 

 Theobald's great work on the Culicidae of the world, five 

 volumes of letterpress and one of plates (1901-1910), issued 

 by the Trustees of the British Museum. 



Prof. Robert Newstead, who has recently had the well- 

 deserved honour of being appointed first Professor of Ento- 

 mology (Liverpool University) in Great Britain, is well known 

 in the field of economic science, both by his earlier work on 

 scale-insects, and latterly, in connection with the Liverpool 

 Tropical School of Medicine. According to "Nature" (Octo- 

 ber 11th, 1911) he is to accompany Colonel Sir David Bruce 

 to Nyassaland early this year, on an expedition sent out 

 under the auspices of the Royal Society, to study the relation 

 between flies and big game in that country, where forty cases 

 of sleeping sickness have appeared since 1909. 



Mr. Walter E. Collinge, of Birmingham, has been active 

 in the study of economic zoology, and has issued five "Reports 

 upon Injurious Insects and other Animals" (1904-1908), and 

 "Economic Biology" (1st, 1911; 2nd, 1912). In conjunction 

 with Messrs. Nuttal, Warburton, and Cooper, he has done 

 some good work upon the ticks [Arrjasidce and Ixodidrf). 



For the last ten years, Professor G. H. Carpenter has pub- 

 lished papers upon injurious insects in the Economic Proceed- 

 ings of the Royal Dublin Society, dealing specially with those 

 infesting domestic animals. Dr. R. Stewart McDougall (Con- 

 sulting Entomologist to the Highland and Agricultural Society 



