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Late in 1929 the post was filled by the appointment of Mr. W. H. 

 Edwards, by transfer from Mauritius where he had been Assistant 

 Entomologist. 



To return again to Bermuda and the Bahamas : it should be stated 

 that these islands have been outside the control of the Imperial 

 Bureau of Agriculture and that little official work has been done in 

 them. Toward the close of the last century the Agricultural Society 

 of Bermuda became intensely interested in the increase of the Medi- 

 terranean fruit-fly. Mr, Claude W. McCallan, as previously men- 

 tioned, appealed to Washington for assistance, and the United States 

 Government became especially interested in this insect at that time. 

 I prepared an illustrated article entitled "A Peach Pest in Bermuda," 

 which was published in Volume 3 of Insect Life, pages 5 to 8 (Au- 

 gust, 1890). This article called attention to the danger of the importa- 

 tion of this pest into the southern States, indicating that such acci- 

 dental importation is always possible. A committee of the Agricul- 

 tural Society of Bermuda under the leadership of Mr. Ambrose 

 Gosling, after exhausting apparently all other resources, made an 

 attempt to wipe out the pest by destroying for a single season all 

 fruits of the kinds known to be affected. This expensive and at- 

 temptedly radical effort failed through the fact that some inconspicu- 

 ous fruit (I think, the so-called ground cherry) was overlooked; and 

 it is thought that the present Florida infestation came from Bermuda. 



In 1923 Mr. L. Ogilvie was appointed to the position of Plant 

 Pathologist of Bermuda, and his duties included investigations of 

 injurious insects. In 1929 he was succeeded by Mr. H. S. Cunning- 

 ham. Mr. Ogilvie left Bermuda in 1928 and is at present Advisory 

 Mycologist to the Agricultural and Horticultural Research Station, 

 Bristol University, Long Ashton, Bristol, England. Just before he 

 left Bermuda, he published under the Department of Agriculture a 

 52-page pamphlet entitled " The Insects of Bermuda." It is a list of 

 species with comments. 



The story of the work undertaken under the auspices of the 

 Imperial Bureau of Agriculture for the West Indies during the 

 period from October i, 1898, to March 31, 191 1, is carefully con- 

 sidered in a lengthy article entitled " Entomology in the West Indies " 

 published on pages 282 to 317 of the West Indian Bulletin, Vol- 

 ume II, No. 4, 191 1. It was written by Mr. H. A. Ballou, who, as 

 we have just stated, assumed the office of Entomologist in 1903. In 

 referring to early work before the establishment of the Bureau, Mr. 

 Ballou mentions the work of W. Fawcett in Jamaica, that of C. A. 



