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was appointed Lecturer on Entomology at the Imperial College of 

 Science in London in 1912. He was an energetic, insistent, and 

 forceful man, with strong individualistic ideas. He was fond of 

 lecturing on the subject of " The Training of an Economic Ento- 

 mologist." In these talks he told some very pertinent truths about 

 the difficulties of an entomologist's tasks, especially in the tropical 

 colonies, based upon his own long experience. He taught some good 

 men and made his name well known, and might have gone far except 

 for his death in 1925 which was caused by accidental gas poisoning 

 in the course of some insecticidal experiments. A very sound and 

 appreciative account of his life and work, by Dr. A. D. Imms, will 

 be found in the Annals of Applied Biology, Volume 11, No. 4, 

 pp. 548-549, November, 1925. 



Economic entomology has been pushing forward with rapid strides 

 at the old Rothamsted Experiment Station at Harpenden of late years 

 under Dr. A. D. Imms. Doctor Imms has a large staff and they are 

 putting out work of the highest character. Imms himself is a man 

 of sound training, broad experience and great knowledge. His 

 " General Text Book of Entomology," published in 1925, is an 

 advanced and very sound volume, containing in its nearly 700 pages 

 a vast amount of information arranged in the most practical way 

 and accompanied by wonderfully full bibliographical lists. 



F. V. Theobald still continues his instruction at the Agricultural 

 College at Wye, and has published many important papers. The 

 University of Cambridge broadened its Department of Zoology to 

 include more entomology as early as 1912. One of its sound young 

 men, G. B. Grosvenor, was sent to America as a Carnegie Student, 

 but unfortunately died not long after his return to England. Since 

 that time Cambridge has been devoting more and more attention to 

 economic entomology. George H. Carpenter has returned to England 

 from Dublin and has been stationed at the Museum in Manchester 

 where he has been publishing several sound books on insects and has 

 delivered some public lectures on economic entomology. In Edin- 

 burgh, R. Stewart MacDougall has been giving up-to-date lectures 

 for many years. He has recently retired and has been succeeded by 

 C. B. Williams. And there are other institutions and organizations 

 that are promoting the work. 



Very recently the Empire Marketing Board ' has appropriated a 



' This is but one of the minor activities of the Empire Marketing Board, an 

 institution that has the broadest plans and really constitutes one of the most 

 important developments in agricultural research in the whole world. It is stated 

 that the dominating motive in this large enterprise is that of making the British 



