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D. Lowe. Mr. Lowe stayed with him for a short time and then went 

 back to England where I met him in 1906 or 1907 and heard his story 

 of his disagreement with Mr. Compere's statements and conchisions. 

 In 1904, Mr. L. J. Newman became Compere's assistant and suc- 

 ceeded him as Entomologist to the Bm-eau of Agriculture of Western 

 Australia. The first of Mr, Newman's publications to which we have 

 any reference is dated 1907. The statement is made in the same 

 number that during the absence of Mr. Compere, traveling in different 

 parts of the world, " the newly appointed Assistant Entomologist, 

 Mr. L. J. Newman, attends to the reception of consignments," etc. 

 The Report of the Department for 1908 is signed by Mr. Newman 

 as Assistant Entomologist. 



Mr. Compere resigned his Australian post in 1910 and returned to 

 California where for many years he held a post under the State 

 Government, engaged largely in port inspection under the State plant 

 quarantine regulations. His earlier work, backed enthusiastically by 

 Mr. Elwood Cooper, seems to have been practically void of good 

 results, and it is a pity that a man of such indomitable energy and of 

 so much resource should not have had a sound training in entomology 

 and in scientific methods. He was the right hand of the element in 

 California that really delayed the progress of entomology in that State 

 for some years as we have pointed out in the section on California. 

 Mr. Newman remained acting Entomologist to Western Australia, 

 after Compere's resignation until 1918 when he was made Entomolo- 

 gist and has been active and apparently efficient. The colony was 

 publishing spraying calendars and information about spraying in 

 1908 and again in 191 3. Evidently as early as 1908 reliance upon 

 natural enemies was weakening. Mr. Newman's recent publications 

 have covered a variety of subjects, but they are very well done. I am 

 inclined to doubt his assertion that the importation of Apheliniis mali 

 into Western Australia through Doctor Tillyard has resulted in the 

 parasitism of other aphids by this parasite, but that is a matter that 

 will be cleared up. 



Northern Territory. — The agriculture of the Northern Territory 

 was at one time looked after by the Department of External Affairs 

 at JMelbourne, and later by a so-called Administrator ; and G. F. Hill 

 acted as Entomologist. In a report published in 191 5 he gave an 

 extended account of the insect pests of plants in the Territory, and 

 another report contains additional accounts of injurious insects, with 

 especial mention of experiments in the control of termites. 



