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the native trees of Hawaii based upon data collected by him dur- 

 ing his connection with this Board. 



FOREST FIRE RECORD. 



With the exception of a few small forest and grass fires on 

 Oahu and a couple on Kauai all of which were, however, extin- 

 guished before serious damage had resulted, the forest fire record 

 for 1911 is fortunately small. One of the fires on Oahu occurred 

 in Manoa Valley in April, the other above Waialua in July. The 

 fires on Kauai were in the woods back of Kilauea. Both occurred 

 in June. 



As in earlier years one ranger was employed throughout the 

 year to patrol the Tantalus forest and to oversee the burning of 

 brush, under permit, on Tantalus Heights. 



Several changes in the stafif of the volunteer fire wardens were 

 made during the year, by which the efficiency of the service as a 

 skeleton organization is maintained. 



Very respectfully, 



Ralph S. Hosmer, 

 Superintendent of Forestry. 



DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



Honolulu, December 31, 1911. 



Honorable Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, T. H. 



Gentlemen :■ — I have the honor to submit herewith the eighth 

 report of the Division of Entomology, covering the work per- 

 formed by my department during the calendar year 1911. 



By far the greater portion of the work performed by the 

 division during 1911 '(consisted in the quarantine inspection of 

 agricultural and horticultural products, arriving from various 

 countries by steamers and sailing vessels. In addition to this 

 work we undertook the Inter-Island Inspection on July 1, 1911, 

 adding two inspectors to our department whose main duty is the 

 inspection of all shipments of fruits and plants in the freight and 

 baggage of the Inter-Island traffic. 



The working staff of the division remained about the same as in 

 1910 except that Mr. H. O. Marsh resigned his place in Febru- 

 ary on account of ill health and although we had hoped to obtain 

 another assistant, we were unable to do so on account of the 

 shortage of available funds. On November 15 we were able to 

 obtain the services of Miss Louise Gulick as laboratory assistant 



