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larger body of reporters whose names are not printed. Each pro- 

 vincial entomologist receives regularly reports from people who 

 correspond to the county agents in the United States and also from 

 numerous growers, and bases his report to Doctor Fryer on the 

 information so obtained in addition to that gained from his own 

 personal experience. 



The five research centers above named are all doing admirable 

 work. For example, there came to me quite recently from the East 

 Mailing Station a large bundle of entomological separates in which 

 the entomologists, A. M. Massee and W. Steer, treat of a variety 

 of important topics. 



In August, 1928, Doctor Fryer visited the Bureau in Washington 

 and was kind enough to explain the present organization for applied 

 entomology that exists in England, and it is partly from his explana- 

 tion and partly from Doctor Tmms that the preceding paragraphs 

 have been written. Doctor Fryer, however, told me that the activities 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society of England must not be over- 

 looked, and fortunately I was able to consult Mr. G. Fox-Wilson 

 who was also in Washington at the time. Both had been delegates 

 to the Fourth International Congress of Entomology at Ithaca in 

 August, 1928. 



It seems that the Royal Horticultural Society, founded in 1805 for 

 the encouragement of horticulture and for the dissemination of 

 knowledge relating thereto, completed in 191 5 at Wisley, Surrey, 

 large laboratories for the housing of departments of entomology, 

 mycology, plant physiology, and soil chemistry, these departments 

 being organized at that time. The first entomologist appointed was the 

 late Professor Maxwell Lefroy, who held a dual appointment with 

 the Society and, as I have elsewhere stated, with the Imperial College 

 of Science in London. G. Fox-Wilson was a student of Lefroy's and 

 was his assistant at Wisley prior to the war. In August, 191 5. Lefroy 

 left to take up work in Mesopotamia, and Fox-Wilson was engaged 

 on antimalaria measures in Egypt for the last three years of the war. 

 In 1918 Lefroy severed his connection with the Society, and in April, 

 1 919, Fox-Wilson was made Entomologist. 



In the Society's Department of Entomology research work is car- 

 ried on dealing with insect pests of horticultural plants. The labora- 

 tory also advises amateur and commercial horticulturists, tests pro- 

 prietary insecticides and fumigants, and gives instruction to students 

 in applied entomology. The course of instruction consists of ele- 

 mentary zoology, entomology including morphology, classification of 

 insects, studies of the chief pests of plants, preventive and remedial 



