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Mackie did a great deal of valuable work. He prepared an article 

 on coconut pests, and did the first work on vacuum fumigation in his 

 efforts to destroy the cigaret-beetle, or cigar weevil as it is some- 

 times called (Lasiodcnna scrricorne) . He had four vacuum fumiga- 

 tors installed, and 6,000,000 cigars were treated and sold in the 

 early work. In 191 3 he organized the first plant quarantine service, 

 and later published a number of very interesting articles. The details 

 of his fight against the locusts are important and very interesting. 

 He also did some work on fruit-flies. 



Following Mr. Mackie's separation from the service, Mr. Gonzalo 

 Merino was placed in charge of pest control for the Department of 

 Agriculture. 



The large collections brought together by Mr. Banks had been 

 studied by experts in different parts of the world and reported upon, 

 but, large as they were, they sank into comparative insignificance when 

 i)r. C. F. Baker got fairly started at his important work. Doctor 

 Baker was a very extraordinary man, who had studied entomology at 

 the Michigan Agricultural College, where he graduated in 1892, and 

 afterwards worked with Professor Gillette in Colorado and later with 

 Professor Cook at Pomona College in southern California. After- 

 wards he worked at the Cuban Experiment Station at Santiago de 

 las Vegas, and still later in Brazil where he made enormous collec- 

 tions of both plants and insects which were presented to Pomona 

 College when he returned in 1908. Baker was appointed Professor of 

 Agronomy in the University of the Philippines in 191 2, subsequently 

 becoming Dean. He worked incessantly with insects, built up ex- 

 traordinary collections, and died in harness in 1927. His collections 

 had been sfent to very many scientific centers in different parts of the 

 world and were thus identified by the world's best specialists. His will 

 gave these collections to the United States National Museum, and, 

 after his death, Mr. R. A. Cushman went to the PhiHppines and 

 packed them carefully; and they are now in Washington. 



The journal known as " The Philippine Agriculturist and Forester."' 

 published by the College of Agriculture of the University of the 

 Philippines at Los Banos, was started in January, 1911. Professor 

 Baker was a contributor, and the journal shows his intense interest 

 in investigation work and also his very great interest in the young 

 Filipinos and his belief in them. His editorial reply to criticisms 

 I)u])lished in No. i of Volume 16 is such an eloquent tribute to young 

 Filipinos that there is no wonder he inspired admirable work. 



In 1909 the Bureau of Agriculture of the Department of the Inte- 

 rior began publication of The Philippine Agricultural Review in 



