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In 1923 a branch of the Government service known as the (trans- 

 lated) Technical Service of the Department of Agriculture and of 

 Professional Instruction was established. Dr. George F. Freeman, 

 from the United States, was appointed Director General of this 

 Service. The technical work was organized under three divisions, and 

 Dr. George N. Wolcott was made head of the Department of Ento- 

 mology and Entomologist of the Experiment Station. He served from 

 July, 1924, to March, 1928. Entomological problems were taken up, 

 and the following native Haitians were engaged in the different prob- 

 lems : Marcel Dartiguenave, Adonis Muller, Emanuel Ducasse, Andre 

 Audant, Alphonse Noel, Auguste Daumec, and Ernest Guery. In 

 July, 1928, Doctor Wolcott was succeeded by Dr. Roger C. Smith, 

 who had been, with Dr. George A. Dean, a professor in the Agri- 

 cultural College of Kansas. In January, 1929, Doctor Smith was made 

 Director of the Central School in addition to Department work, and 

 in the later months of 1929 was Acting Assistant Director General. 

 Five projects were begun during his administration, namely (i) 

 Cotton insects; (2) Insects affecting staple crops other than cotton; 

 (3) Fruit and vegetable insects; (4) Insects and rodents injurious 

 to man; (5) Bee culture. Much time was also devoted to the mak- 

 ing of an insect pest survey of Haiti and to the bringing together of 

 a representative collection of identified insects as a basis for instruc- 

 tion work in the Central School. Doctor Smith completed his work in 

 the winter of 1929-30, and returned in the spring of 1930 to Kansas. 



Dr. H. L. Dozier succeeded Doctor Smith as the head of the depart- 

 ment in the Technical Service on October i, 1929. Doctor Dozier 

 had served in Porto Rico and later occupied the post of Entomologist 

 of the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Doctor Smith informs me that the Department has a good equip- 

 ment for the usual entomological work, and that the zoological library 

 is probably the best of any in the technical branches. 



Doctor Wolcott, in beginning his work in 1924, took up especially 

 insect enemies of sugar cane and cotton. The pink bollworm was 

 found to occur in certain regions and particularly with certain varie- 

 ties of cotton. In 1926 the International Institute of Rome published 

 a report by Mr. Wolcott on insect pests in Haiti. In 1927, a very well 

 done book of 440 pages was published by the Technical Service at 

 Port-au-Prince, on the entomology of Haiti, under the authorship of 

 Doctor Wolcott. It is written in the French language, of course, and 

 carries 133 figures of which a number are original and are very well 

 done. They were drawn by Fritz Maximilien, a former student of 

 the Central Agricultural School and employed as an assistant in the 



