WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY HOWARD 359 



Applied entomology started really in 1905, after the Department 

 of Agriculture was established in Treub, and in 1910 a Phytopatho- 

 logical Institute was started in Buitenzorg and placed in charge of 

 Dr. C. J. J. van Hall. The first Entomologist was Dr. W. Dammer- 

 man, who was later assisted by Dr. S. Leefmans and somewhat later 

 by L. G. E. Kalshoven, W. C. van Heurn, W. Roepke (temporarily), 

 and P. van der Goot. Dr. N. Kemner, of Stockholm, was temporarily 

 employed as an entomologist. Doctor Dammerman became Director 

 of the Zoological Museum after the World War. Doctor Leefmans is 

 at present the Director, and the entomologists are Van der Goot, 

 Kalshoven, Reyne (formerly in Surinam), Van der Vecht, Voute, 

 Dr. C. Franssen, and a few European assistants. The Government in 

 1909 appointed the neuropterologist, H. W. van der Weele, as Ento- 

 mologist for the Cinchona Plantation at Tjinieroean, but he died a 

 year later in Java of cholera. Dr. H. H. Karny, of Vienna, worked 

 as an entomologist in the Zoological Museum from 1920 to 1929. 

 He was succeeded by Lieftinck, of Amsterdam. 



In the veterinary service and the medical service several good medi- 

 cal entomologists have been em]3loyed, namely Schuurmans Stek- 

 hoven, Schiiffner, Swellengrcbel, Rodenwakl, Van der P>rug and 

 E. W. Walch. 



Private research, laboratories for the larger plantations began work 

 in economic entomology before the Government. The Sugar Cane 

 Laboratory was established in Kagok, West Java, in the late eighties, 

 but later was transferred to Pasoeroean, East Java. Kobus and 

 Kriiger published their first papers on sugar cane insects late in the 

 eighties or early in the nineties. Then Zehntner began his classical 

 work which was summarized later by W. van Deventer. Van der 

 Goot worked as an entomologist at this institution in 1913 and 

 1914. Then entomological work was discontinued for 14 years when 

 it was taken up once more by Dr. Hazelhoflf, of Utrecht. 



Dr. L. Zehntner was a Swiss. He left the Sugar Cane Research 

 Institute in 1900 and took charge of a small cacao experiment sta- 

 tion in Salatiga. He resigned from this position in 1906, and went to 

 Brazil |T understand that he has returned to his native Switzerland 

 and is now living near Basel]. Doctor Hunger, of Amsterdam, suc- 

 ceeded him in the sugar cane station and was assisted by Doctors 

 van Leeuwen and Roepke as entomologists, the former in Salatiga 

 and the latter in Bandoeng where he was especially engaged in cin- 

 chona investigations. Prior to 1928 Miss Wilbrink (Cheribon) did 

 some entomological work. Doctor van Leeuwen resigned from the 

 experiment station and was succeeded by Doctor Roepke. The for- 



