WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY — HOWARD 405 



J. L. Webb, subsequently for many years connected with the Fed- 

 eral Bureau of Entomology at Washington, entered the Philippine 

 Government Laboratories in 1903, to take up the study of forest 

 insects in the Archipelago, but remained in the islands only a few 

 months, working mainly under the direction of the Bureau of Forestry 

 of which Capt. George P. Ahearn was chief. 



]\Ir. Banks soon became interested in biting insects and took up 

 systematic study of the mosquitoes. His report on cacao insects was 

 pul)lished on pages 597-620 of the Report of the Secretary of the 

 Interior, 1902-3. It was illustrated by a large number of admirable 

 half-tone plates. 



By 1907 Mr. Banks had found 100 species of mosquitoes in the 

 island, and had built up a considerable entomological collection. He 

 was given an assistant, Willie Schulze, who was working with him 

 certainly before 1908.' In 1910 Charles R. Jones, an American, was 

 appointed to help in the economic aspects of the work, and was trans- 

 ferred in 1912 to the Bureau of Agriculture in connection with locusts. 



Mr. Banks took up the subject of silk culture and prepared a 

 manual of silk culture. He further made an investigation of the in- 

 sects afifecting tobacco. In August, 1914, he was transferred to the 

 University of the Philippines, returning to the Bureau of Science in 

 1919. 



Mr. Schulze resigned and entered commercial life in 1913. He had 

 built up a large collection of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera and had 

 completed a catalogue of Philippine Coleoptera. 



When Mr. Banks returned to the Bureau of Science he brought all 

 of the collections, equipment, and books back to Manila, and in 1919 

 the collection of insects was said to approximate 350,000 specimens. 



Mr. Banks retired in June, 1922, and Mr. Schulze came back into 

 the service, resigning finally in 1927. 



Mr. David B. Mackie, of California, entered the service of the 

 Bureau of Agriculture as Inspector in 1912, and was in charge of 

 the migratory locust campaign from its inception until 19 18. The 

 Government appropriated from 50,000 to 100,000 pesos a year and 

 maintained a very active campaign, conducting its work through the 

 Bureau of Agriculture and through the local provincial governors. 

 At the peak of the locust outbreak, as I am informed by Mr. Mackie, 

 practically every province in the Archipelago was infested. During 

 his term of office — and he was later termed Entomologist — Mr. 



* Mr. Webb tells me that he remembers Mr. Schulze very well in 1903. He 

 went with him on one or two extended trips. At that time Mr. Schulze knew 

 no English. 



