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eases of Queensland Fruits and Vegetables," by Messrs. Veitch and 

 Simmonds. It is a very well printed book of nearly 200 pages and is 

 abundantly and extremely well illustrated. In I. W. Helmsing. the 

 authors have a capital entomological artist. The colored plates are 

 wonderfully well done. The whole book is absolutely Australian, and 

 on the title page appear the words " Wholly set up and printed in 

 Australia." 



The entomological work of the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Sta- 

 tions is carried on independently of the Division of Entomology and 

 Plant Pathology of the Department of Agriculture and Stock. Mr. 

 A. A. Girault went from the United States to Queensland in 191 1 and 

 served as the Entomologist of the Bureau until 1914. He then 

 returned to the United States, and later returned to Australia and 

 engaged in special work for the Queensland Bureau of Sugar Experi- 

 ment Stations. In 1914 Mr. Edmund Jarvis joined the staff as Ento- 

 mologist, and Dr. J. F. Illingworth (another American) became asso- 

 ciated with the Bureau in 191 7 and conducted investigations for sev- 

 eral years. Mr. Alan P. Dodd, now in charge of the scientific work 

 of the Prickly-Pear Board, was also an officer of the Bureau for some 

 years. The present staff consists of Edmund Jarvis, R. W. Mun- 

 gomery, A. N. Burns, J. H. Buzacott, and W. A. McDugal. The 

 principal efforts of the Bureau have been directed to the solution of 

 the white grub problem, and it has published a number of very com- 

 prehensive bulletins. They have also investigated other important 

 sugar cane pests, and a large number of articles have resulted. 



Mr. G, H. Hardy, Fellow in Economic Biology at the University 

 of Queensland, has been working for several years on sheep blowflies. 

 He has also been studying the Aphididae. Mr. F. A. Perkins, Lec- 

 turer on Economic Entomology at the University, has been working 

 upon fruit-flies. 



Entomological work of still another character is being carried on 

 in Queensland independently of the Division of Entomology and 

 Plant Pathology of the Department of Agriculture and Stock. Mr. 

 E. Ballard, an excellent entomologist who had been in the Nyasaland 

 Protectorate as early as 191 3 and who had served in India for 10 years 

 as Entomologist to the Government of Madras and elsewhere in south 

 India, came to Queensland in 1924 and held the position of Common- 

 wealth Cotton Entomologist. In India he had made studies of the pink 

 bollworm and of other pests of Indian cotton, and he took up the 

 entomological problems of this crop in Queensland with vigor, pub- 

 lishing in the next four years nearly a score of papers. These were 



