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appointed to this position on September lO, 1918. In the meantime 

 the Departments of Plant Pathology and Entomology had been 

 reunited with Sr. Cardin as Chief, and S. C. Brimer as Assistant 

 Chief (Scgundo Jcfe). On the death of Sr. Cardin, on September 29, 

 1919, Mr. Bruner was appointed Chief of this department, and 

 Sr. Arango was promoted to fill the vacancy left by the latter, 

 Sr. Braulio T. Barreto being appointed Assistant Entomologist at the 

 same time. The position of Assistant Entomologist was abolished for 

 economy in 1921 together with a number of similar positions at the 

 Experiment Station, but Sr. Barreto continued at the Station with a 

 temporary appointment until December, 1925. There have been no 

 other changes in the stafif of this Department to date, February, 1930. 



Following the publication of Bulletin 20 on insects and diseases of 

 Cassava plant in Cuba, vSr. Cardin published in 1912 and 1913, in 

 Circulars 42 and 43, a paper on " The Insects and Diseases of Avo- 

 cados." In the same Circular No. 43 (1913) appeared a short paper 

 by Mr. J. S. Houser entitled " Informe preliminar sobre las Plagas 

 de la Cana de Azucar en Cuba (Preliminary Report on the Sugar 

 Cane Pests of Cuba)" translated from the English by Sr. Cardin; 

 he also was author of Circular No. 33 (March, 1909) on Insecticides 

 and Fungicides. In 191 5 the third report of the Cuban Experiment 

 Station appeared (period February, 1909, to July 30, 1914) which 

 includes (pp. 98 to 216), in the Report of the Department of Plant 

 Pathology and Entomology^ by Sr. Patricio Cardin, an annotated list 

 of economic insects and plant diseases of Cuba arranged alphabetically 

 according to the plant attacked. This work contains much valuable 

 information. Sr. Cardin also published a paper on the black fly 

 (Aleurocanthus zuoglumi Ash.) in the official Revista de Agricultura, 

 Comercio y Trabajo (May, 1918) and another on pests of the castor 

 oil plant in Cuba (October, 1918). In the report for 1917-1918 of the 

 Station (published 1919) Sr. Cardin gives a short account of his 

 studies of the black fly of Citrus and other insects. 



Mr. Reginald Hart published a number of papers in the Revista de 

 Agricultura, Comercio y Trabajo, including a paper on the pepper 

 weevil {Cryptorrhynchns citbac) (September, 1919), Grosella looper 

 (Melanchroia geonietroides) (November, 1919) and in the same year 

 an annotated list of Cuban agricultural pests in tabular form, in two 

 parts including a number of new items. 



Sr. Barreto, during the time he served in the Department, published 

 in a series of short papers on economic insects, particularly on pests 

 of sugar cane, lima beans, fruit trees, bees, etc., mostly in the 

 Revista de Agricultura referred to, and Bulletin 42 of this Station, 



