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the interest shown in the matter by Garden and Field, an important 

 agricultural paper published at Adelaide, the editor of which, Mr. 

 W. C. Grasby, visited the United States and was very appreciative 

 of the work done here. He was an early foreign member of the 

 American Association of Economic Entomologists. 



One of the early writers in South Australia was Mr. J. G. O. 

 Tepper, who for many years held the position of Curator of the Ento- 

 mological Department of the South Australian Museum at Adelaide 

 and acted as Consulting Entomologist for the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. He was also consulted by other colonies. Mr. Tepper died in 

 1922 but had retired at the age of 70 and was succeeded by A. M. 

 Lea, who is now Entomologist to the Musevim and Consulting Ento- 

 mologist to the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Lea has been con- 

 nected with the Museum since 191 1. 



In 1894, Mr. George Quinn, Horticultural Instructor and Chief 

 Inspector of Fruit under the so-called " Vine, Fruit, and Vegetable 

 Protection Act," became connected with the Department of Agricul- 

 ture for the purpose of carrying out the law and trying in a general 

 way to place horticulture on a sound footing. This law empowered 

 the authorities to deal with and regulate the introduction into the 

 State of fruits, plants, insects, and diseases, and to make regulations 

 for enforcing attention to any which might be already found injuring 

 plant life in the State or which might from time to time be introduced. 

 The law seems to have been rigidly enforced. In many cases disin- 

 fection by hydrocyanic-acid gas was carried on, charges being imposed 

 on the importer covering the expenses. Under Mr. Quinn's direction, 

 demonstrations in spraying experiments were carried out in the gar- 

 dens of South Australia, and he worked for years in testing reme- 

 dies, publishing bulletins and in giving lectures and personal advice. 

 He had a good force, consisting at times of as many as 12 men. Some 

 of Mr. Quinn's more important publications have related to spraying 

 against the codling-moth, to the banded pumpkin beetle and to the 

 fruit-maggot fly pests. 



The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of South Australia, 

 which began its publication in August, 1897, under the title " The 

 Journal of Agriculture and Forestry " and which ran for seven vol- 

 umes under that title, is still being issued, and has always contained 

 many shorter notes on injurious insects, published either editorially or 

 as quotations from other journals. 



It seems strange that South Australia has never had a paid official 

 economic entomologist ; but her inspection force, in combination with 



