30 puesident's address. 



Russia, last month, I received a letter from Dr. Platnivow, at 

 Taskent, in Russian Turkestan, asking me for literature and 

 reports, and informing me that he was organising an Ento- 

 mological Station in that part of the world. 



Nothing much is done in the East, under Turkish rule, but 

 everyone has heard something about the accomplishments of 

 the British officials in Cyprus, in locust-destruction, but it is 

 not generally known that there is an Act in force and a 

 locust-tax. Everybody, including the British officials, pays a 

 percentage of his income or salary to the fund for locust- 

 extermination. 



Japan has moved along in scientific agriculture, as in othei 

 works ; and I have a number of correspondents in that coun- 

 try. At the Imperial Central Agricultural Experiment 

 Station at Tokyo, Dr. Kuwana is studying the Coccidae of 

 Japan. Professor Matsumura, of the Sappora Agricultural 

 College, Hokkaida, is working at the small homoptera, and 

 the damage they do to the rice-crops. Dr. S. Onuki and Pro- 

 fessor C. Saski, of the Imperial College, at Tokyo, have also 

 worked at entomology on economic lines. 



The African States and Colonies, like other countries occu- 

 pied in developing their agricultural resources, have realised 

 the necessity of having scientific branches of their Depart- 

 ments of Agriculture. The Government of Cape Colony 

 appointed Mr- Charles P. Lounsbury Government Entomolo- 

 gist, in 1895 ; which post he held until last year, when he was 

 promoted to the premier position of Chief of the Division of 

 Entomology, Union of South Africa. His investigations of 

 South African ticks, and other economic work are well and 

 widely known. Dr. Dreyer has succeeded him. Mr. Claude 

 Fuller, once an officer in the New South Wales Department, 

 was first appointed assistant to Mr. Lounsbury, but later on 

 left Cape Colony to take the position of Entomologist to the 

 Natal Government, which he still holds. On the reorganisa- 

 tion, after the South African war, a Department of Agricul- 

 ture was formed in the Transvaal, when Mr. C. B. Simpson, 



