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that was introduced later into Fiji with such success against the 

 Levuana caterpillar. He also published other papers, either indepen- 

 dently or in collaboration with Mr. Corbett. In 1926 he resigned to 

 take up the post of Malaria Research Officer in the Institute of Agri- 

 cultural Research. In 1928 Mr. H. T. Pagden and Mr. N. C. E. 

 Miller were appointed assistant entomologists. Mr. Pagden has been 

 engaged in investigating three stem borers of paddy. Mr. Miller had 

 been working for tw'o and a half years with the Tsetse Research 

 Branch, Game Preservation Department, in Tanganyika Territory. 

 He is especially interested in the Acridiidae. 



Mr. Corbett and his force have been doing very good work, and 

 have published a number of admirable reports and articles. One of 

 Mr. Corbett's interesting articles, published in 1920 in collaboration 

 with D. Ponniah, related to an alleged damage done by insects to 

 rubber seed. A publication entitled " Gardens-Bulletin Straits Settle- 

 ments " has published some good articles by E- Matthieu and by 

 F. Flippance. 



PALESTINE 



True economic entomology in this country was taken up after the 

 conquest in 1917-18 by l.ritish forces. As a State under British man- 

 date, with a civil administration under a British High Commissioner, 

 affairs are carried on as in many other parts of the British Empire. 



From May, 1921, to August, 1923, Dr. P. A. Buxton was Medical 

 Entomologist to the Government, and he made a lengthy report 

 entitled "Applied Entomology of Palestine " which was published in 

 the Bulletin of Entomological Research for March, 1924. The bulk 

 of this report was devoted to entomological matters of medical or 

 veterinary interest, but some attention was gi.ven to agricultural pests. 



In 1923 Mr. G. E. Bodkin, who had held important official positions 

 in British Guiana and who had devoted much time to the economic 

 entomology of that colony, went to Palestine, having received appoint- 

 ment as Government Entomologist. Fle began important investiga- 

 tions at once. One of his earlier tasks was to introduce the fumigation 

 of citrus trees into Palestine. This work he 1)egan immediately, and 

 published in 1925, in the Bulletin of F.ntomological Research, the 

 results reached down to that time. In 1927 he published in the 

 same journal an important article on the fig wax scale (Ceroplastcs 

 riisci L.). In 1928 there was a locust invasion of Palestine, and the 

 Bulletin of Entomological Research for August, 1929, contains a very 

 important article with maps and illustrations concerning this invasion. 

 The locust invasion was repeated in 1929, and Mr. Bodkin wrote a 



