WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY HOWARD 4O9 



mologists in the Archipelago were Uichanco at Los Banos and Otanes 

 and Banks at Manila. 



Recently I learned from a University of California publication 

 that Alonzo W. Lopez (University of California class of 1928) is 

 now Entomologist to the Philippine Sugar Association Research 

 Bureau and is stationed at La Carlota, Occidental Negros, and that 

 he has a good laboratory. 



HAWAII 



In 1893, the year before the Republic of Hawaii was definitely 

 established, the provisional Government created a Department of 

 Agriculture and Forestry, and Albert Koebele was appointed Ento- 

 mological Expert for a term of three years. Mr. Koebele was charged 

 with the duty of first carefully investigating the entomology of Hawaii 

 and then of traveling in Australia, New Zealand, and other countries 

 for the purpose of collecting and transmitting to Hawaii insects which 

 will prey upon native and introduced insect pests. In the following 

 years Koebele continued this work. 



In 1898 the former Republic was annexed to the United States 

 as a Territory. Soon afterwards an Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, under the Office of Experiment Stations of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, was established, and D. L. Van Dine, a 

 competent entomologist who had been educated at Cornell University, 

 was placed in charge of the entomological work. 



Under the Territorial Government, a competent inspection of intro- 

 duced plants was begun at the port of Honolulu. Mr. Alexander 

 Craw, well known for his previous work of a similar character in 

 San Francisco, was placed in charge of this inspection. 



The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association established a well 

 equipped laboratory and appointed R. E. L. Perkins as Entomologist. 

 Mr. Perkins was an Englishman who had been working in Hawaii 

 under the auspices of the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science gathering material for the great " Fauna Hawaiiensis." 

 His energies under the new appointment were largely devoted to the 

 introduction of parasitic insects. He was given competent assistants. 

 Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy, a well known British entomologist, was brought 

 over. Albert Koebele was taken on, and the work under the Planters' 

 Association assumed large proportions. Later Frederick Muir, a very 

 well trained man and son-in-law of the famous Dr. David Sharp, 

 joined the force; and later O. H. Swezey, D. T. Fullaway, F. X. 

 Williams, H. S. Osborn, and other competent men were taken from 

 the United States. 

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