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Immediately after the discovery of the carriage of malaria by mos- 

 quitoes by Ross in 1898, Professor Theobald was commissioned by 

 the Royal Society to prepare a monograph of the mosquitoes of the 

 world, which was published by the British Aluseum in several vol- 

 umes between 1901 and 1905 — a most notable piece of work and of 

 the very greatest use in medical entomology. 



Prof. L. C. Miall's little book published in 1902 in London and 

 entitled " Injurious and Useful Insects — An Introduction to the Study 

 of Entomology " should not be overlooked. It is a duodecimo of 250- 

 odd pages, well illustrated, and includes in its anatomical and classi- 

 ficatory features information necessary to the true student of applied 

 entomology. Professor Miall was a keen student, but by no means to 

 be considered as an economic entomologist. The brief chapter on 

 remedies is for the most part drawn from the publications of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 



In 1912 an Imperial Bureau of Entomology was formed in London, 

 This Bureau has been of immense service to the economic entomolo- 

 gists of the British Empire, and in fact to the economic entomologists 

 of all countries. With its headquarters at the British Museum of 

 Natural History, it is able to secure identifications of injurious insects 

 sent in by the colonial and dominion entomologists. But its greatest 

 service to economic entomology has been in the establishment of a 

 Review of Applied Entomology published each month in two parts, 

 the one Agricultural Entomology, and the other Medical and Vet- 

 erinary Entomology. This Review is a great boon to all English- 

 speaking entomologists. Its staff of compilers is able to read and 

 digest articles in many languages unknown to the average worker. 



An event almost concurrent with the founding of the Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology has much interest. Lord Cromer, on his 

 return from his wonderfully successful administration of affairs in 

 Egypt, was made the Chairman of the Central Africa Research Com- 

 mittee. Andrew Carnegie, being in London, met Lord Cromer and 

 inquired about his new work. His Lordship replied that it was 

 broadly planned and promised great results. In the study of the agri- 

 cultural resources of Africa, however, it had been found that England 

 did not have the men to handle the matter of insect damage to the 

 crops which they hoped to grow in many parts of that fertile continent. 

 " We have not," he is reported to have said, " any men trained in 

 work of this kind, such as you have in such numbers in America." 

 Mr. Carnegie at once replied that he would gladly pay the expenses of 

 a number of young Englishmen who should be selected to go to the 

 United States and study American methods. This proposition was 



