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adaptation of insecticides in use in other parts of the world to the 

 requirements of special crops under cultivation in India. The puh- 

 lication of the Indian Museum Notes was continued for a number 

 of years, and the set is valuable for reference to workers in all parts 

 of the world.' Some of the illustrations are wonderfully well done. 

 Five volumes and one part of a sixth were published. 



At the expiration of Mr. Cotes' term of service, Mr. Lionel de 

 Niceville was appointed Entomologist to the Government of India. 

 He was instructed to carry his investigations into the field and study 

 crop pests in the actual regions in which they were doing damage. 

 Mr. de Niceville was a well known entomologist and a very compe- 

 tent one, but unfortunately in the same year he contracted malaria and 

 died. 



In 1 901 E. P. Stebbing was appointed Forest Entomologist to the 

 Government of India, and in 1903 H. Maxwell Lefroy was appointed 

 to fill the post made vacant by De Niceville's death. In the interim, 

 Mr. Stebbing had published a series of circulars on agricultural eco- 

 nomic entomology issued by the trustees of the Indian Museum. 

 Between 1903 and 1907 Mr. Lefroy had published a number of ento- 

 mological memoirs of the Department of Agriculture, and Mr. Steb- 

 bing had published certain forest bulletins dealing with tree-boring 

 beetles. In the meantime Mr. E. Ernest Greene had been made Gov- 

 ernment Entomologist for Ceylon, with headquarters at the Royal 

 Botanic Garden at Peradeniya, a position which he held for a time 

 and during which he published the results of some admirable studies, 

 especially with the Coccidae. 



It should be noted here that there was issued in 1902 by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture of Mysore, a bulletin entitled " Notes on Ento- 

 mology " by A. Lehman, Official Agricultural Chemist. It contains 

 some general statements about insecticides. 



In 1905, Mr. Lefroy was transferred to Pusa, to the Central Re- 

 search Department of the Agricultural Department, and the title of 

 his post was changed to that of Imperial Entomologist to the Govern- 

 ment of India. He was given an assistant in agricultural entomology, 

 and an entomologist was also appointed to deal with disease-carrying 

 insects, and there was another assistant. 



In 1912 Mr. Lefroy left India to go to London to become professor 

 of entomology in the University of London. He was succeeded by 



' While busily engaged at this important work in the Museum, one day Mr. 

 Cotes met a young American woman, a writer, who was on her way around 

 the world — Sarah Jeannette Duncan — and later married her. I think they must 

 have gone back to England to live not long afterwards. At all events, Mrs. 

 Cotes has written one or two charming books about English life since that time. 



