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Technical Service. At the Fourth International Congress of Entomol- 

 ogy in August, 1928, at Ithaca, New York, Dr. Wolcott read an inter- 

 esting paper entitled " The Pink BolKvorm in Haiti," which will be 

 found in the Proceedings of the Congress. 



THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 



Some work was done in the Dominican Re])ul)lic prior to 1920 by 

 O. W. Barrett and E. A. Barthe, and in 1919 there was published in 

 the Agricultural Review of Santo Domingo an article on the eco- 

 nomic importance of the sweet potato weevil by M. A. Crespo. In 

 1920 George N. Wolcott was appointed to the National Agricultural 

 Station of Haina. Mr. Wolcott's term of office was short and he 

 seems to have published nothing at the time, but some years later, 

 while in Porto Rico, he published an article on the insects that attack 

 cacao in Santo Domingo. In 1927 Dr. Giuseppe Russo began to pub- 

 lish as Chief of the Entomological Section of the National Agronomi- 

 cal Station and College of Agriculture. He has written a short pam- 

 phlet on the insects injurious to the principal cultures and the meth- 

 ods of fighting them, and especial articles on the insects of various 

 crops, and also upon apiculture and honey. In a magazine entitled 

 Revista de Agricultura, the official organ of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, of which I have seen several of the 1929 numbers, Doctor 

 Russo has good articles upon a number of entomological topics. 

 Early in 1929 Dr. Juan Gomez Menor was appointed to the Service 

 of Plant Sanitation of the governmental Department of Agriculture. 

 He has published an article on the Mediterranean fruit-fly and two 

 on the biology of scale insects. 



VIRGIN ISLANDS 



Soon after the United States Government purchased the Virgin 

 Islands from Denmark in 191 7, an Agricultural ICxperiment Station 

 was started ; and Mr. C. E. Wilson was appointed Entomologist in 

 April, 191 9. He served until August, 1922, He pul)lished notes on the 

 insects of the Virgin Islands and means for their control, in the 

 reix)rts of the Station from 1920 to 1923, and among these notes an 

 extensive list of scale insects. He was also the author of a bulletin 

 (No. 3) on the insect pests of cotton in St. Croix, and of one (No. 4) 

 on truck crop pests in the Virgin Islands. Other articles containing 

 insect notes were jniblished under the authorshij) of L. Smith. 



