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tempt some interesting importations of beneficial insects. I expect 

 great things from this comparatively young, well trained, and enthusi- 

 astic man. 



THE PHILIPPINES 



Many collections had been made in the islands of the Philippine 

 Archipelago, and many of the species were to be found in the dififer- 

 ent great collections of the world before the Spanish-American War. 

 In fact, the fauna had attracted the attention of many naturalists. In 

 1895 and. 1896 a large three volume systematic catalogue of the fauna 

 of the Philippines was puJDlished by the College of Saint Tomas in 

 Manila, prepared by Fr. Casto de Elera, Professor of Natural His- 

 tory and Director of the Museum of the Dominican Fathers of the 

 " Colegio-Universidad " of Saint Tomas. Volume 2 of this great 

 catalogue comprises the Articulata. It is little more than a list of spe- 

 cies, but covers 676 large octavo pages. In the foreword, the follow- 

 ing well known entomologists are mentioned as having worked upon 

 Philippine insects : G. A. Baer, Maur, Reginbart, O. Mohnike, 

 F. Chapuis, Roelofs, Candeze, Selys Longchamps, Osten Sacken, 

 C. Stal, Semper, Staudinger, E. Grube, and Ignacio Bolivar. Of the 

 676 pages of this volume on the Articulata, 525 pages are devoted to 

 insects. This great catalog was brought together by the author for the 

 Regional Philippine Exposition. 



Soon after the Spanish-American War, added collections began to 

 come in to the museums of the United States and to the European 

 museums. For example, Fr. Robert Brown, S. J., Fr. W. A. Stan- 

 ton, S. J., of the Observatory at Manila, and Dr. P. L. Stengl of the 

 United States Army sent collections to the United States National 

 Museum in Washington ; and the late Dr. Wl H. Ashmead published 

 in 1904 and 1905 some papers on the Hymenoptera of the Philip- 

 pines based principally on material sent in by these men. 



About that time Dr. C. H. T. Townsend accepted a teaching posi- 

 tion in the Philippines and went over there for a number of months, 

 and of course did a certain amount of collecting, although I do not 

 recall that he published anything about the Philippine fauna. 



Following the war also came the establishment of the Philippine 

 Government Laboratories, afterwards changed to the Philippine 

 I'ureau of Science with Paul C. Freer as Director. Mr. C. S. Banks, 

 who had been an assistant of Dr. E. P. Felt, the State Entomologist 

 of New York, passed a Civil Service examination and was engaged by 

 the Government Laboratories in December, 1902. He was immedi- 

 ately sent to the Island of Negros to study insects afYecting the cacao. 



