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1882 30,000 pounds was expended on the campaign. One thousand, 

 three hundred and five tons of eggs were destroyed at a cost of nearly 

 12,000 pounds. Then the screen and pit system was adopted, which 

 became generally known as the Cypriote method and has been of 

 great use ever since. In fact it has been used the present year in 

 eastern Egypt and in Transjordania. In 1883, it is stated, two hun- 

 dred thousand kilos of locusts were destroyed in this way. 



From 1896 to 1905, P. Gennadius ( a Greek) was Director of Agri- 

 culture in Cyprus, and corresponded with the Bureau of Entomology 

 in Washington. Although not distinctly an entomologist, he was a 

 very well informed man and carried on some entomological work. He 

 was succeeded by another Greek, D. Saracomenos, until 191J. A 

 Cypriote, Z. I. Solomides, was Entomologist from 1914 to 1920, but 

 was only a junior ofihcer. He was succeeded by a fellow countryman, 

 G. A. Mavromoustakis, who held office in 1921 and 1922. In 1923 

 an Englishman, Mr. D. S. Wilkinson, was appointed Government 

 Entomologist, and remained until 1926. Through his efforts, the 

 rather abundant legislation in force regarding insect pests was re- 

 formed and new legislation was adopted. He made studies of the 

 codling moth, of Eurytoma amygdali, and especially of Thaiimeto- 

 poea wilkinsoni, publishing a long account of the latter insect in the 

 Bulletin of Entomological Research for October 2, 1926. Mr Wilkin- 

 .son is now a ^Senior Assistant in the Imperial Bureau of Entomology 

 at London. 



In the beginning of 1927, Mr. H. M. Morris was appointed. Mr. 

 Morris was a well known worker on several important problems in 

 economic entomology who had been connected with the Rothamsted 

 Experimental Station at Harpendcn, England, and who has done- 

 some excellent work in Cyprus since his arrival. The island produces 

 wheat, cotton, Citrus fruits, and apples, all with the usual pests, and. 

 as Mr. Morris writes me, there are also locusts and rats to be dealt 

 with. He finds himself so busy that he has little time for research. 



