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measures, legislation, etc. Advance courses in entomology are given 

 to those students who are taking the national diploma in horticul- 

 ture and the degree of bachelor of science in horticulture. 



An important movement to which we have not referred was the 

 founding in 1904 of the Association of Economic Biologists. The 

 call for the first meeting was issued by Mr. Walter E. Collinge, of 

 Birmingham, and the meeting was held in his rooms in the University 

 of Birmingham on July 18. Prof. F. V. Theobald was made Presi- 

 dent of the newly founded Association. The inavigural meeting was 

 held in London, November 8, 1904, at which papers were read and the 

 Association was definitely started. Subsequent meetings were held 

 from time to time at Birmingham, Liverpool, Cambridge, London, 

 and Oxford, and the Proceedings were published. While the whole 

 field of economic biology was covered, and while men of other spe- 

 cialties than economic entomology were included from the start 

 among its members, the Association has always been thoroughly com- 

 mitted to applied entomology. The proceedings of the early meetings 

 are published in separate pamphlets comprising four parts of a single 

 volume. 



In 1906 the Association began the publication of an important 

 ])eriodical known as The Journal of Economic Biology. This jour- 

 nal and the earlier proceedings were edited by Mr. Collinge. The 

 Journal was succeeded in 1914 by the establishment of The Annals 

 of Applied Biology, of which 16 annual volumes have been published, 

 each volume containing four numbers, usually published in February, 

 May, August, and November. This has always been a very note- 

 worthy publication and has had the support of applied biologists all 

 over the British Empire. It is beautifully done, from the printer's 

 standpoint, at the Cambridge University Press. It is of large size 

 and unusually well illustrated. Some very noteworthy papers on eco- 

 nomic entomology have been published in its pages. An especially 

 admirable feature of this publication is that, while the practical end 

 is always in view, it presents in excellent shape the results of many 

 basic studies, thus furnishing sound printed records which even- 

 tually may assist in practical deductions of the greatest importance. 

 Some of the best papers published anywhere have appeared in its 

 pages. 



Scotland has had a numl)er of very good entomologists, but in eco- 

 nomic entomology little has been done north of the Cheviot Hills. 

 Andrew Murray is one of the names, however, that is well known, and 

 has been mentioned on an earlier page. R. Stewart MacDougall of 

 recent years has been prominent through his writings and his atten- 



