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dance at international conferences. He was for a time University 

 Lecturer on Agricultural Entomology and Professor of Zoology and 

 Botany in the Royal Veterinary College of Edinburgh, and held posts 

 of that general character in the University until his retirement in 

 1928 when he was succeeded by C. B. Williams. Doctor MacDougall 

 has published many articles on different topics in economic ento- 

 mology in the Journal of the Board of Agriculture (London), in the 

 Transactions of- the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland 

 and elsewhere. He is a very forceful and charming speaker, and his 

 lectures at Edinburgh must surely have been productive of much good. 

 I first met him at the conference of the Imperial Bureau of Ento- 

 molog)^ in London in 1920, and later at the Third International Con- 

 gress of Entomology at Zurich in 1925, and again at the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Zoology in Budapest in 1927. I was much im- 

 pressed with his personality, his broad knowledge and his very effec- 

 tive public discussions. 



Surely Great Britain, with its present organization in England, 

 with its Entomological Research Committee, with its Bulletin of 

 Entomological Research, its Review of Applied Entomology, and now 

 with the Annals of Applied Biology issued by the Association of Eco- 

 nomic Biologists, stands well in the forefront of the research now 

 going on in the world and looking to the control of injurious insects. 



Added note. — We have referred in the foregoing paragraphs to 

 the excellent books written by George H. Carpenter, and to Dr. A. D. 

 Imms' admirable text-book. Other important books have been writ- 

 ten of recent years. Two books, for example, we particulaidy mention. 

 One is " The Principles of Insect Control," by Robert A. Wardle of 

 the University of Manchester and Philip Buckle of the University of 

 Durham. The other is " The Principles of Applied Entomology," by 

 Professor Wardle. Both of these are broad, far-seeing books and are 

 indicative of a very perfect familiarity with previous work. 



During the year 1929 a somewhat less pretentious work, entitled 

 "Agricultural Entomology," was published in London. It is by D. H. 

 Robinson of the Harper Adams Agricultural College and S. G. Jary 

 of the University of Reading. This is a book of some 300 pages, 

 illustrated by 149 text figures, very many of which are entirely new. 



IRELAND 



To the systematic entomologist, Ireland will always be famous as 

 the home of A. H. Haliday whose taxonomic work with the parasitic 

 Hymenoptera was admirable. He seems to have been especially inter- 

 ested in the Chalcidoidea and to have worked cooperatively with 



