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Doctor Roepke has also sent me references to the publications of 

 the different men mentioned above, but it will be unnecessary to print 

 the list here. , 



MALAYA 



The first Government Entomologist in Malaya was Mr. H. C. Pratt. 

 He was appointed in 1906, and held the title of Government Ento- 

 mologist at the Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, in 

 1907. He was transferred to the staff of the Director of Agriculture 

 in 1908, and continued in that post until 1916. His especial publi- 

 cations related to Artona catoxantha Hampson, a pest of coconuts, 

 to the termite (Copfotcrmcs gcstroi Wasm.) that damages rubber, and 

 to the migrator}'- locust. He also published occasional articles on 

 insecticides in the Agricultural Bulletin of the Federated Malay 

 States. In 191 1 Mr. C. B. Holman-Hunt was appointed Assistant 

 Entomologist, and the title was changed to Systematic Entomologist 

 in 1919. He retired from that post, for age, in 1920, the vacancy 

 being filled by the appointment of Mr. H. M. Pendlebury. In 1913 

 Mr. P. B. Richards was appointed an Assistant Entomologist. In 1916 

 Mr. Pratt resigned, and Mr. Richards took the place of Government 

 Entomologist, which he held until 1920. Mr. Richards paid especial 

 attention to the white ant, and I am informed that his recommen- 

 dations for the control of this insect are still practiced on all estates. 



Mr. G. H. Corbett, who in 191 1 was connected with the Royal 

 Agricultural College at Cirencester, England, came to the United 

 States of America in 1914 as a Carnegie Student. He remained here 

 for about a year and then returned to England where he obtained a 

 commission in the Royal Field Artillery and served in France until 

 June, 1917, when he was seconded to the Egyptian army for service 

 in the Sudan, returning to England in the autumn of 1919. In 1920 

 he was appointed Government Entomologist in Malaya to succeed 

 Mr. Richards. Dr. Guy A. K. Marshall informs me that from 1922 

 to 1924 Mr. Corbett worked single-handed. I note, however, that 

 in 1923 H. W. Jack published about the insects affecting rice in 

 Malaya — both growing rice and stored rice, the stored rice enemies 

 being, of course, the ordinary cosmopolitan species. Mr. Corbett has 

 a long list of papers to his credit relating to the different injurious 

 insects of Malaya. Mr. B. A. R. Gater was appointed Assistant Ento- 

 mologist in 1924, and in 1925 published an article entitled " Some 

 Observations on the Malaysian Coconut Zygaenid {Artona catox- 

 antha)." This paper called attention to an insect that came to have a 

 roundabout importance, since it was a Tachinid enemy of this moth 

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