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4 GEORGE V., A. 1914 



TRAVELLING. 



Visits have been made to the various provinces for the purpose of organizing 

 and inspecting the field work, and to give lectures and addresses. In May, I visited 

 Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Massachusetts in connection with our work against 

 the Brown-tail Moth. At the end of July, I left for England and attended the Inter- 

 national Congress of Entomology, which was held at Oxford from August 6 to 

 August 10. On August 12, as Canadian representative, I attended a conference 

 called by the Secretary of State for the Colonies at the Colonial Office to work out 

 a scheme, for Imperial co-operation in preventing the spread, and furthering the 

 investigation, of insect pests. This conference and a previous conference held in 

 June, 1911, has resulted in the establishment of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 

 to which reference is made in the next section. Lectures and addresses have been 

 given at Halifax, St. John, N.B., Toronto, Winnipeg, and other places. In February, 

 a visit was made to North Portal, Sask., and Winnipeg, Man., in connection with 

 the establishment of a fumigation station in southern Saskatchewan, and the annual 

 meeting of the Manitoba Horticultural and Forestry Association at Winnipeg was 

 addressed. Mr. Arthur Gibson lectured at a short couvse held at Charlottetown, 

 P.E.I., in January, and has addressed other meetings. As I have already stated, Mr. 

 J. M. Swaine has visited different provinces studying forest insect depredations. 

 Mr. F. W. L. Sladen conducted a short course in apiculture at the Nova Scotia Agri- 

 cultural College in January, and subsequently addressed meetings and studied apicul- 

 tural conditions in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 



niPERL\L BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



Through the co-operation of the self -governing British Dominions and colonies 

 and the Colonial Office, an Imperial Bureau of Entomology has been established, 

 at the beginning of the present year, in London, England. It is an expansion of the 

 Entomological Research Committee of the Colonial Office, which was established in 

 1909, and was concerned with the furthering of entomological research in the British 

 possessions in tropical and sub-tropical Africa, especially in so far as it is related 

 to such human diseases as sleeping sickness and malaria, etc. By securing co-opera- 

 tion and financial support of the self-governing Dominions and Colonies, the Colonial 

 Office has been enabled to broaden the work by the formation of this Bureau which 

 is managed by an honorary committee of experts in Entomology, in tropical and 

 veterinary medicine; the chief entomologist of each of the self-governing Dominions 

 is I'z-o/ficio a member of the committee. 



The functions of the Bureau are as follows: — 



1. A general survey of the noxious insects of the world and the collection 

 and co-ordination of information relating thereto, so that any British country 

 may learn by inquiry what insect pests it is likely to import from other coun- 

 tries, and the best methods of preventing their introduction and spread. 



2. The authoritative identification of insects of oconomic importance sub- 

 mitted by the Departments of Agriculture and Public Health throughout the 

 Empire. 



3. The publication of a monthly journal, giving concise and useful sum- 

 maries of all the current literature which has a practical bearing on the inves- 

 tigation and control of noxious insects. This journal, entitled The Review of 

 Applied Entomology, commenced in January, 1913. It appears in two parts: 

 Series A, Agricultural, and Series B, Medical and Veterinary. As supporters 

 of, and adherents to, the Bureau, we receive a number- of copies of this journal 

 each month and these are distributed to the Provincial Departments of Agri- 



