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While Mr. Simmonds is the Government Entomologist, Mr. R. W. 

 Paine and Mr. T. H. C. Taylor are the entomologists of the so-called 

 Coconut Committee. 



Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, of Colorado, visited Fiji in 1928, and in 

 an article published in the journal Science for December 7, 1928, 

 mentioned incidentally that the entomological work in Fiji was sup- 

 ported to the extent of about one-half by the Government; the other 

 half by the planters, through a tax on copra. 



SAMOA 



Several American entomologists have visited Samoa since the 

 United States became interested in those islands, and before the 

 World War German experts working in German Samoa conducted a 

 number of investigations, the most notable being that of Dr. F. Fried- 

 erichs on the coconut beetle. In 1926 G. E. Hopkins, of England, 

 made a study of the pests of economic plants in Samoa and other 

 island groups. He seems to have worked with Dr. P. A. Buxton 

 who was sent out there from England and who reported on the human 

 disease problems, especially the diseases carried by insects. Later 

 Doctor Buxton became connected with the London School of Tropical 

 Medicine, and is the medical entomologist of that institution. 



GUAM 



An Agricultural Experiment Station was established in Guam 

 under the Office of Experiment Stations of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture early in the present century. From May 16 

 to November 3, 191 1, Mr. D. T. Fullaway made extensive collections 

 on the island and published notes on some of them in the Report of 

 the Guam Station for that year. 



In 1925 Mr. S. R. Vandenburg was appointed Entomologist to the 

 Station, and has published several reports. He has been especially 

 interested in the control of the coconut scale by biological means, 

 and has been very successful. He has also established in Guam the 

 Tachinid parasite (Ceromasia) for the sugar cane borer. 



