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these traps have been used for control of Agrotis yfsilon to a considerable 

 extent since then, as Mr. Woodhouse told lis himself in this very room 

 just four years ago. Subsequently I met Mr. Woodhouse many times 

 and had considerable correspondence with him regarding entomological 

 matters, in which he took a keen interest, although he was of course a 

 Botanist. His untimely death has deprived us of a valued colleague, 

 whose place will be hard to fill. 



Another whose death has occurred since our last Meeting is Mr. 

 Charles William Mason, who was the first Supernumerary Entomologist 

 at Pusa and who will be remembered by many of you, although he left 

 India just before my arrival so that I never met him personally. He 

 came out to Pusa in December 1906 and during the next three years was 

 stationed here, being chiefly occupied in an investigation of the food of 

 birds, especially in relation to the value of birds to agriculture by their 

 destruction of insect pests, and the third volume of Entomological 

 Memoirs of this Department is wholly devoted to a record of this work. 



After his return to England in 1910 he studied for some time at the 

 South-Eastern Agricultural College at Wye, and afterwards went to 

 America as a Carnegie student to undergo further training in Entomology. 

 Subsequently he was appointed to succeed Mr. E. Ballard as Government 

 Entomologist in Nyasaland, v\'here he died of black-water fever on 28th 

 November 1917 at the Government Farm at Namiwawa. In his Annual 

 Eeport for the year ended 31st March 1918, the Director of Agriculture 

 in Nyasaland says : — " Mr. Mason was an exceptionally able and popular 

 ofiicer. his enthusiasm and care produced work of a very high standard, 

 his researches in connection with tobacco and cotton pests conferred a 

 lasting benefit on the planting community, and his demise in the prime 

 of young manhood is not only a loss to the Department and his fellow 

 workers but to Tropical Agriculture in Africa." 



That is, I am sure, a statement which you will desire to endorse and 

 I therefore propose to place the followng Resolution before you : — 



The Entomological Workers assembled at this Meeting- desire to Resolution r 

 express their sense of the loss to Entomological Science sustained by the 

 untimely deaths of their former co-workers in India, the late Edward 

 John Woodhouse and Charles V/illiam Mason. 



\Tliis Resolution was 'passed in silence, all standing.'] 

 Before coming to a consideration of the subjects on our programme, 

 there are one or two other points which I should like to put before you, 

 although they are not perhaps suitable for discussion at the full Meeting. 

 It has been suggested, from more than one direction, that we might 

 form an Entomological Society in India and thus hnk together all the 

 various workers on entomology in India, Burma and Ceylon. In this 



