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the report for 1903 he mentions his assistant, C. French, Jr., and one 

 or the Other or both contributed articles to the later numbers of the 

 Journal. 



In 191 2 articles by C. French, Jr., are signed "Acting Government 

 Entomologist," and in 1914 as " Government Entomologist." This 

 necessarily means that the son was appointed to his father's position 

 during 1914. 



I believe that there has always been a good staff connected with 

 the office of Government Entomologist. I have seen in a Yearbook 

 of Agriculture for 1905 the name of Charles French as Entomologist 

 with a staff consisting of C. French, Jr., and 11 other assistants. 



Charles French, Jr., still holds the office and is publishing excellent 

 reports. Mr. Walter Froggatt, writing me recently, tells me that 

 Mr. French, Jr., no longer has a staff' like that just mentioned, but 

 has a cadet, and is largely engaged in fruit inspection and routine 

 work. Mr. Froggatt also informs me that Charles French, Sr., is 

 living in Melbourne and is about 90 years of age.^ Mr. Froggatt also 

 tells me that at the National Museum in Melbourne Mr. J. Clark is 

 a great worker and much interested in ants ; that Mr. A. L. Kershaw 

 has been interested in insects, and that in the Victorian Naturalists' 

 Club there are some busy entomologists, notably Erasmus Wilson, 

 a coleopterist, and George Lyell, a lepidopterist. 



Queensland. — In 1889 Mr. Henry Tryon, who was then an Assis- 

 tant Curator in the Queensland Museum at Brisbane, prepared a 

 report on insect and fungus pests which was published in the Annual 

 Report of the Department of Agriculture for the year 1889-90. It 

 was a long report, covering 238 pages, and was accompanied by three 

 plates of spraying apparatus. In this report Mr. Tryon referred to the 

 appointment of a board in February, 1875, to " enquire into the 

 causes of diseases affecting live stock and plants." Two thousand 

 five hundred pounds were placed at the disposal of the board during 

 the years 1875 to 1877, and it published four reports. He further 

 states that Dr. J. Bancroft had conducted investigations and referred 

 among other things to the occurrence of certain scale insects on Citrus 

 plants. Doctor Bancroft's publication, which was issued at Brisbane 

 in 1879, was entitled " Diseases of Animals and Plants," and it 



^ While I am reading the proof of this book, I have received a letter from 

 Mr. C. French, Jr., in which he tells me that he is now assisted by Mr. R. M. T. 

 Pescott and that he is conducting a number of important investigations. He also 

 states that his father is still living, at the age of 92, and is still very interested 

 in all entomological matters. 



