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competent advice from the South Australian Museum, seems to have 

 handled the situation fairly satisfactorily. 



Quite recently there has been founded in South Australia the Waite 

 Agricultural Research Institute under the University of Adelaide. 

 This Institute was established for the purpose of furthering the 

 cause of education and research in agriculture and allied subjects. 

 Buildings have been erected upon large estates at Glen Osmond four 

 miles from Adelaide. The active work began in 1925. From public 

 funds, from funds contributed by the Empire Marketing Board, and 

 from gifts by individuals, the Institute has assumed shape and prom- 

 ises admirable work. Arrangements have been made for entomologi- 

 cal research. An exceptionally well trained man, Dr. James Davidson, 

 formerly of the Rothamsted Station in England, has been appointed 

 Entomologist and is now on the ground and at work. Doctor David- 

 son while noted for his investigations of the Aphididae, is a broadly 

 trained man and admirably fitted to handle the entomological ques- 

 tions of importance in South Australia. 



Nezv South Wales. — In 1885 a young Englishman named A. Sidney 

 Olliff went from London to Sydney to accept the office of Entomolo- 

 gist to the Australian Museum. He was a young man of great promise. 

 Before leaving London he acted as volunteer assistant to Mr. C. O. 

 Waterhouse in the British Museum and later was secretary and 

 scientific assistant to Lord Walsingham. He was only 20 years of 

 age when he reached Australia, and he had already published ento- 

 mological papers in England. After arriving at his new post his pub- 

 lished papers in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales were numerous. 



The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales v^as started under 

 the Bureau of Mines and Agriculture in 1890, and Mr. Ollifif began 

 at once to contribute many important articles to this journal on ento- 

 mological subjects. It was only natural, therefore, that Mr. Olliff 

 should have received the first appointment to the charge of the Ento- 

 mological Branch of the Department of Mines and Agriculture. In 

 a series of entomological bulletins begun in 1892 his name appears 

 upon the title page as " Government Entomologist, New South 

 Wales," but his appointment obviously dated from 1890. The first 

 number of the Gazette contains an important article of his on the 

 codling moth, and the subsequent numbers contain frequent valuable 

 articles, nearly all very vi^ell illustrated. The volume for 1891, for 

 example, contains no less than 19 such articles ; that for 1892 has 20. 

 He continued this important v^ork until he died at the untimely age 

 of 30 in 1895. He had, however, built up a sound reputation. We 



