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Washington, and I am able to write of them in the highest terms, not 

 only professionally but personally. No other country has a more com- 

 petently manned service in economic entomology. 



Notable for its size and completeness is the large work entitled 

 (translated) " The Agricultural Zoology of the Malay Archipelago," 

 by K. W. Dammerman, Zoologist to the Department of Agriculture 

 at Buitenzorg, Java, published in Amsterdam in 1919. This is a vol- 

 ume of 368 pages, illustrated by 39 plates and 134 text figures. A 

 number of the plates are colored and are extremely well done. While 

 the work includes the whole of agricultural zoology, it is almost 

 entirely entomolgical and pays especial attention to remedies. It is a 

 very well printed royal octavo, issued from Amsterdam. 



By the close of 1927 Doctor Dammerman had prepared an English 

 edition of this work. The scope of the work was extended to neigh- 

 boring countries with faunas almost identical with that of the Dutch 

 East Indies so far as pests are concerned, and he includes facts 

 placed at his disposal by Prof. C. F. Baker of the Philippines and 

 Mr. G. H. Corbett of the Federated Malay States. The book was 

 consideral)ly enlarged, and in its English form covers 473 pages. It 

 was published at Amsterdam in 1929. It is interesting to note that, 

 although Dammerman speaks very good English, he nevertheless sub- 

 mitted the entire manuscript to Capt. H. S. Bushell, Assistant 

 Editor of the Review of Applied Entomology, for the purpose of 

 having the English corrected and the whole manuscript put into 

 shape " according to the English practice of printing." 



Aside from those already mentioned there have been other good 

 investigators and writers among whom should be mentioned especially 

 P. E. Kuchenius, C. J. T. van Hall, A. E. Rutgers, and M. Ishida. 

 Rutgers has published some very good reports for the Association of 

 Rubber Planters of the east coast of Sumatra. 



Dr. Oswald Schreiner, of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, who attended the Pan Pacific Science Congress in Java in 

 1929, has lent me an elaborate book entitled " Science in the Nether- 

 lands' East Indies," from which I am able to straighten out my con- 

 ception of the organization of the different stations carrying on work 

 in economic entomology in the Dutch East Indies. In the first place 

 there is a Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Industry, and 

 this Department has among its technical divisions an Institute for 

 Plant Diseases, which includes of course economic entomolgy. This 

 technical division devotes itself to the estate crops (in close collabo- 

 ration with private experiment stations) and to native agriculture. 

 And then there are a number of private experiment stations, the costs 



