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worked on the control of the so-called " mosquito blight " of tea 

 (Hclopclfis). Moreover, the Bombay Natural History Society pub- 

 lishes in its journal many important papers on the life histories of 

 Indian insects, and the Asiatic Society of Bengal has also published 

 entomological papers in its journal from time to time. 



CEYLON 



Admirable work against injurious insects had been done in Ceylon 

 for a great many years. Mr. E. Ernest Greene, for many years con- 

 nected with the wonderful Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya, was an 

 excellent entomologist, and continues his remarkable work on scale 

 insects today although he retired to England many years ago. Ceylon 

 has had a succession of good economic workers. One of the early 

 Carnegie Students, Andrew Rutherford, went out there and published 

 a number of excellent articles, mainly in the journal entitled Agri- 

 culture. After his death, E. R. Speyer, another Carnegie Student to 

 America, was sent out, and published several reports. And there are 

 also reports signed by G. M. Henry, Assistant Entomologist. After 

 Mr. Speyer returned to England, J. C. Hutson was appointed Govern- 

 ment Entomologist and still holds the office. Mr. F. C. Jepson is 

 Assistant Entomologist, and Mr. C. B. R. King is the Entomologist 

 at the Tea Research Institute. Mr. King was formerly Entomologist 

 to the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation in Nyasaland and Mo- 

 zambique. Prior to his appointment in Ceylon, Mr. S. S. Light held 

 the post. It should be stated that in 1916 Nigel K. Jardine held the 

 temporary entomological post for the investigation of the tea Tortrix. 

 G. M. Henry, in Tropical Agriculture for March, 191 7, published a 

 detailed account of this insect. 



DUTCH EAST INDIES 



Although Holland in Europe is a very small country, her colonial 

 possessions are very great. I remember vividly how the American 

 delegates to the International Congress of Entomology and Phyto- 

 pathology at Wageningen in 1923 were impressed when one of the 

 Dutch delegates showed a map of Holland and its colonial possessions 

 superimposed upon a map of the United States. None of us had 

 realized down to that time that Holland with its colonies covers a 

 territory which would compare favorably with the whole of the most 

 fertile portion of the United States proper. 



The Dutch have shown themselves to be wonderfully good colo- 

 nizers, or, perhaps better, administrators of colonies. Their East 

 Indies possessions, situated as they are in the tropics, offer a very 



