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Francis Walker of the British Museum of Natural History. In fact, 

 it is quite possible that the large amount of work done by Walker 

 on the insects of this important and interesting complex was inspired 

 by Haliday's investigations. 



In strictly economic entomology, however, little work was done 

 until 1890, when George H. Carpenter, a well trained biologist and 

 entomologist of England, was appointed Consulting Entomologist 

 to the Royal Dublin Society. As a supplement to the agricultural sta- 

 tistics of Ireland for the year 1889, there was published a " Special 

 Report on Insects, Fungi, and Weeds Injurious to Farm Crops," 

 illustrated with original drawings. The author was Robert E. Mathe- 

 son. barrister at law and Secretary of the General Register Office. 

 Mr. Carpenter helped in the entomological portions, which were 

 largely compiled from Curtis, Miss Ormerod, and Whitehead. The 

 six plates of illustrations are very fair, and the publication must have 

 been a useful one. 



Carpenter's first report on economic zoology was published in 1900, 

 and a report of this character was thereafter submitted annually. 

 These reports were published in the reports of the Council of the 

 Royal Dublin Society, and reprints were distributed widely. At the 

 time, Mr. Carpenter was Assistant Naturalist in the Science and Art 

 Museum in Dublin. 



In 1900 a Government Department of Agriculture and Instruction 

 was established, and to this Department were transferred many of the 

 scientific institutions of Dublin where liiological research was carried 

 on. including the Museum of Science and Arts and the Royal College 

 of Science. Down to the time of this transfer, the Museum staflf was 

 in the habit of receiving and aiLswering inquiries about injurious 

 insects, and with the establishment of the Department the number of 

 these inquiries increased. Popular leaflets on common insect pests 

 were prepared for the use of farmers throughout the country. 



In 1901 Carpenter was appointed Lecturer on Zoolog>' in the Royal 

 College of Science for Ireland, and entomology of course formed an 

 important feature of the zoological course. In 1904 he was made a 

 professor in the college, and good laboratory facilities and funds were 

 placed at his disposal. He still retained the post of Consulting Ento- 

 mologist to the Royal Dublin Society, which continued to publish 

 economic proceedings and of course Carpenter's yearly reviews of 

 the injurious animals of Ireland. 



The yearly reports, issued as separates by the Royal Dublin Society, 

 continued until 1920 and form a very important and useful series. 

 They are well illustrated. Carpenter l>ecame interested at an early 



