HULLETIN 



OF THE 



DEPAR,a^:MEisr'^r of aq-rioulttjiie 



Trinidad, and Tobag-o. 

 Part 4.] 1919. [Vol. XVIII. 



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Stafi Changes. 



The Secretary of State for the Colonies has appointed Mr. W. G. 

 Freeman Director of A.griculture, as from May 1, 1917 the date of 

 retirement of Professor P. Carmody. Mr. Freeman has been acting as 

 Director since February 1, 1917. 



Mr. .7. B. Rorer, the Mycologist of the Board of Agriculture who was 

 granted one j'ear's leave from November ]918 to take up a temporary 

 appointment with the Asociacion de Agricultores del Ecuador has 

 resigned and is remaining in Ecuador. 



Mr. R. 0. ^Villiams, Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens and St. Clair 

 Experiment Station has been appointed Agricultural Superintendent 

 of Grenada. 



Mr. L. H. Patterson who was appointed Clerk and Overseer at the 

 Government Farm, Trinidad on July 1, 1919 retired from the Service 

 owing to ill health on October 31, 1919. 



Mr. Francis Chookolingo has been promoted to the post of Clerk, 

 Botanical Department as from February 1, 1919. 



Mr. Ali Hosein was confirmed in the post of 3rd Clerk at the Head 

 Office on August 1, 1919. He has been acting since Tune 1916. 



Mr. Ashrafi' Hosein has been appointed Clerical Assistant to the 

 Superintendent of Field Experiments as from November 1, 1919. 



Bntomolog-ical Conference. 



The Conference of the Entomologists of the Empire which had to be 

 postponed from 1914 is to take place in June 1920 in London. Mr. F. W. 

 Urich, Entomologist and Mr, C. B. Williams, Entomologist in charge of 

 Froghopper Investigations, will attend as representatives of the Colony. 



Fi'Oghopper Investigations. 



Mr. W. Nowell, D.I.C., Mycologist on the Staff of the Imperial Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture for the West Indies paid a second visit to Trinidad 

 during October and November when he continued, in collaboration with 

 Mr. C. B. Williams, M.A., the investigation of the part played by root 

 disease in causing the condition generally known as blight. Mr. Nowell 

 gave a short summary of the results obtained at the November meeting 

 of the Board of Agriculture. A full report will be issued later in con- 

 tinuation of the former one (Bulletin — Department of Agriculture 

 Vol. XVII. 1919). 



Centenary of the Royal Botanic Gardens. 



The Botanic Gardens of Trinidad has completed a century of 

 uninterrupted work and is thus one of the very few tropical gardens of 



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