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The climax of this interchange of somewhat dubious compliments 

 came at the final dinner, which was given by the Chinese community 

 of Honolulu. The President of that community was Mr. Wang How, 

 who made the oj)ening address in the Chinese language. The toast- 

 master was Mr. Charlie Wang, a Harvard graduate, who interpreted 

 Mr. Wang How's speech. And then I was called upon, as chairman 

 of the conference, to speak for the guests. I paid many compliments 

 to the Chinese nation, said that I had been very much impressed by 

 Mr. Wang How's speech, and stated that he had shown me that the 

 Chinese were great inventors, not only in big things like the mariner's 

 compass and gun-powder, but also in little things, since his name How 

 was evidently the beginning of my own name and that upon the 

 Chinese Hozv some Englishman, perhaps a thousand years later, had 

 drafted the ard. So I greeted Mr. Wang How as a long-lost cousin. 



After a few moments of attempted pleasantries of that kind, I took 

 my seat, and Sir Joseph was called upon. With his broad Australian 

 accent, he remarked that he had been very much interested in what 

 Doctor Howard had said but that he had anticipated him in the rela- 

 tionship to Mr, Wang How, since he had noticed the facial resem- 

 blance between the two men as soon as they had sat at table ! 



In an earlier paragraph we have referred to the appointment of 

 D. L. Van Dine as the first Entomologist to the Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station founded by the Office of Experiment Stations of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture soon after the annexation 

 of the Hawaiian Republic to the United States as a Territory. 

 Mr. Van Dine was appointed in 1902 and held the ofiice until 

 March, 1909. His first bulletin related to mosquitoes, and his interest 

 in mosquitoes in Hawaii continued. He published three bulletins on 

 the subject. It was this work that eventually led to his appointment in 

 charge of a station under the Federal Bureau at Mound, Louisiana, 

 in which very important research was carried on relating to malarial 

 mosquitoes and to the economic effect of malaria on the laborers on 

 a large plantation in the Mississippi delta. He also published while in 

 Hawaii on a number of other insect problems, writing 13 special 

 bulletins and contributing articles to the Report of the Station. He 

 wrote one bulletin on the insect enemies of tobacco in Hawaii. It was 

 published in 1905. For a number of years there was a strong effort to 

 establish a tobacco-growing industry in Hawaii, but it was found 

 impossible to grow wrapper leaf which would compete in price witb 

 that grown in the United States, and the attempt was abandoned. 

 Insect enemies were a part, but a small part. 



