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tions were started in West Java and Middle Java. Each station seems 

 to have had its independent series of pubHcations. 



In the first volume of the East Java station was published a long 

 account of a Scarabaeid beetle {Apogonia destructor) with three ex- 

 cellent engraved plates. The author was J. D. Kobus. It was pu1:)- 

 lished separately as No. 28 of the first series. In No. 43 of the same 

 series the same author published an article on the same insect, and 

 in this article described Thrips striatoptera, with an engraved plate. 



The Experiment Station at Medan, Sumatra, seems to have made a 

 specialty, of tobacco more than any other crop, and it published a 

 series of bulletins brought together in volumes from October, 1906, to 

 1924. In the earlier volumes are articles by L. P. de Bussy and 

 others on insecticides and on the insect plagues of tobacco. As else- 

 where stated. Doctor de Bussy came to the United States in 1910, 

 and on his return published several papers. In 1916 he published a 

 paper on the cigaret-beetle. In that year J. E. A. \'an Dooj) pub- 

 lished an article on the spread of the Trichogramma introduced into 

 Sumatra from America by De Bussy; and in 191 8 the same writer 

 published on the tobacco louse and other tolmcco insects. 



In 1907 the West Java station was amalgamated with the station 

 for East Java, and later publications were issued by Dr. R. Fulmek 

 and Dr. H. H. Karny. 



For the past 13 years Dr. S. Leefmans and Dr. P. van der Goot 

 have been publishing entomological articles under the Institute for 

 Plant Diseases at Buitenzorg. These have appeared as a rule in the 

 form of bulletins, and refer largely to sugar cane insects. Later 

 important papers on the rice borer, on the pests of cinchona, on a 

 borer in the stems of jute, on the coffee borer, on tea insects and those 

 injuring cocoa, and so on, have l^een published by these writers and 

 also by L. G. E. Kalshoven, W. C. van lleurn, and W. Roepke. 



We have already mentioned Dr. L. Zehntner. He began publishing 

 at an early date in the Archives of the Java Sugar Industry and in 

 the Proceedings of the West Java Sugar Station. Many of his arti- 

 cles were very important. Dr. W. Roepke in 191 1 and 1912 published 

 four papers on cacao insects. 



Thus very good men, trained in biology as applied to agriculture, 

 have been working at various problems at these Dutch I'^ast India 

 stations for many years, and their work has given these stations very 

 high rank in the scientific world. They have included workers in' 

 plant diseases as well as entomologists, plant physiologists, and other 

 specialists. Of the entomologists, L. P. de Bussy, K. W. Dammer- 

 man, W. Roepke, S. Leefmans, and P. van der Goot have all visited 



