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were publishing the journal " Insect Life " in the Division of Ento- 

 mology of the United States Department of Agriculture at that time, 

 and I well remember with what sound satisfaction his bulletins and 

 articles were received and the great pleasure I had in giving them 

 full reviews so that they would become known to the 3,000 or more 

 people who received Insect Life. His obituary was published on 

 page I of Volume 7 (1896) of the Agricultural Gazette, and a list 

 of his published papers was added. This list comprised 'J2 titles. 



About this time Mr. Charles T. Musson, a professor in the Hawkes- 

 bury Agricultural College, began to publish in the Gazette notes on 

 entomological subjects. This college was a Government institution 

 under the Department of Agriculture, and economic entomology was 

 dealt with, and a course of 32 lectures with 15 practical exercises was 

 given in the second year of the student's residence. Professor Musson, 

 however, covered in his work, not only entomology, but also botany, 

 vegetable pathology, and nature study. And he had only one general 

 assistant. 



It appears that at the time of Olliff's death, Claude W. Fuller was 

 holding the post of Assistant Entomologist. His first independent 

 article occurs in the Gazette for January, 1896, and is entitled " Insect 

 Friends and Foes." In a later number an article by Fuller entitled 

 " Insect Pests " carries under his own name the title "Acting Ento- 

 mologist." In the final number of the volume, an article by Fuller 

 entitled " Plant Galls formed by Insects " carries under his name the 

 title " Entomologist." So, before the year was out he had been 

 formally given Mr. Olliflf's post. The most important article by Mr. 

 Fuller in this volume is entitled " Bovine Tick Fever." It covers 

 27 pages and a number of plates. Mr. Fuller's subsequent career was 

 in South Africa — first in a post in Natal, afterwards under the Union 

 of Federated States — and apparently he left Australia in the early 

 part of 1897. 



Fortunately, the colony had, in the person of Mr. W. W. Froggatt. 

 a sound entomologist employed in the Technological Museum at 

 Sydney, who had already published under the " Technical Education 

 Series "of leaflets at least one important paper bearing upon eco- 

 nomic entomology. Mr. Froggatt was appointed successor to Fuller; 

 took up the large correspondence upon entomology ; traveled through- 

 out the State making investigations and giving lectures. He established 

 an insectary where he carried on necessary breeding tests, and con- 

 ducted a laboratory and an office in Sydney. His activity was very 

 great, and in the volumes of the Agricultural Gazette from 1890 to 

 1906 inclusive are printed no less than 131 signed articles. 



