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'Society in Egypt, has also sent a most interesting paper on his experi- 

 ments on the survival of resting stage larvae of the Fink Bollworm in 

 cotton-bolls buried at different depths and under different conditions m 

 the ground. In my Address to the Second Meeting, two years ago, I 

 referred to Mr. Willcocks' illuminating experiments on the length of time 

 during which Pink Bollworm larvae were found to be able to rest in cotton- 

 seed in Egypt, and the present experiments show how these larvae are 

 able to survive in cotton-bolls buried in the soil even when an irrigated 

 crop has been grown in the ground beneath which these bolls were buried. 

 At ou'-' last Meeting also I referred to the visit paid to India by Mr. 

 D. T. Fullaway especially to collect parasites of Chatodacus cucurbitce, 

 our common Cucurbit Fruit-fly, for importation into Hawaii, and Mr. 

 Fullaway has very kindly sent us a paper describing his visit to India 

 and the success achieved in Hawaii by the parasite, Opius fletcheri, which 

 he was successful in transporting from India to Honolulu. 



Section II, Forest Entomology, only contains one paper, on some 

 problems in forest insect control, by Mr. Beeson, the Forest Zoologist. 

 In many cases the insects which attack forest trees are similar to, or even 

 identical with, those which attack agricultural crops, whilst in other 

 cases they are widely different from any we have to deal with. In any 

 case, we shall all be very interested to hear about them, whether they 

 are old friends or new ones. 



Section III was intended for Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 

 and in the prehminary provisional programme which I circulated last 

 October it was presumed that this subject would be arranged by the 

 Imperial Pathological Entomologist. It has now been decided to omit 

 this subject from the present conference. 



Section IV deals with Household and Store Pests, and we have a few 

 papers on these. The subject of household and store pests is one that 

 badly requires working on in India and might perhaps be taken up more 

 fully at the next Meeting. 



Sections V (Bee-keeping) and VI (Lac) will not detain us for very 

 long. I do not think there is much new to say about either. Regarding 

 Bee-keeping, however, I should like to warn any of you, who may think 

 of doing so, against importing European bees at present, owing to the 

 grave danger of introducing bee diseases, particularly Isle of Wight 

 disease, into India. It may be necessary to restrict the importation of 

 bees and foundation-comb, as is done in South Africa. 



Under Subject VII (Silk) Mr. De will tell you something of what we 

 have been doing in the way of attempts to improve the multivoltine 

 races of silkworms, and will also give a paper on the methods of combat- 

 ing pebrine. Mr. C, M. Hutchinson, the Imperial Agricultural Bacterio- 



