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by such an organization. I appreciate the administrative reasons for 

 the change in South Africa, but I cannot help thinking that if an 

 organization of somewhat the same character had been effected in 

 this country, as proposed in the early years of the present century, 

 the present Bureau of Entomology functioning (as was proposed) 

 as a division or section of a great bureau of animal industry would 

 not have produced results comparable to those that it has gained, and 

 surely it would not have reached its present advanced condition as a 

 leader in applied entomology and thus as a demonstrator of the vital 

 importance of entomological studies. 



Dr. Charles K. Brain has just published a hand-book dealing with 

 South African pests. It is entitled " Insect Pests and Their Control 

 in South Africa." The book covers 468 pages and has 204 illustra- 

 tions. The groups of insects are considered in order, South African 

 representatives being especially mentioned. Eight chapters are de- 

 voted to the treatment. There follow three chapters on beekeeping, 

 diseases transmitted by insects and ticks, and on control measures. 

 About one-half of the illustrations are original. Doctor Brain is now 

 Secretary for Agriculture, Northern Rhodesia. He was formerly 

 Entomologist, Union of South Africa, and Professor of Entomology 

 in Stellenbosch University. The publication of this book is notably 

 nnportant, since it is the first general treatment of the injurious 

 insects of South Africa since the publication of Miss Ormerod's 

 little book entitled " Observations on Some Injurious Insects of 

 South Africa" (1889). 



BRITISH COLONIES IN AFRICA, INCLUDING MAURITIUS 

 AND THE SEYCHELLES 



The aims of Lord Cromer and the original Central African Re- 

 search Committee seem to have progressed very favorably in many 

 ways, among them in economic entomology. Important papers have 

 been issued from the various colonies for a very considerable number 

 of years. During the period of publication of the Review of Applied 

 Entomology, for example, from 1912 to and including September, 

 1929, 319 good papers have been published from such colonies exclu- 

 sive of South Africa and Egypt. 



It has always been confusing to the workers in other parts of the 

 world, and perhaps especially so since the great war, to carry in their 

 minds a definite impression of these African colonies of Great Britain. 

 They include a very large portion of the continent of Africa. We 

 receive many of their publications, and we read with interest the 

 reviews published by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, but I 



