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Australian Museum at Sydney, has contributed many important articles on entomo- 

 logical suV>iects, which have resulted from his appointment to the charge of the entomo- 

 logical branch of the Department of Mines and Agriculture. Whether Mr. Olliff 

 receives a separate compensation for his work in this direction from the Department, 

 aside from his salary as an olticer of the Museum, I have been unable to learn. The 

 prominence given to entomological matters in the G'rt.;';(!i;'?, however, is an indication of the 

 live interest taken in the subject. In a series of entomological bulletins, begun in 1892, 

 Mr. OlHIf s name appears on the title page as " Government Entomologist, New South 

 Wales." Another able entomologist is employed in the Technological Museum at Sydney, 

 in the person of Mr. W. W. Froggatt, who has, under the " Technical Education Series " of 

 leaflets, published at least one importHnt paper bearing upon economic entomology, which 

 has reference to the damage done to boots and shoes by Anohium (Siiodrepa) paniceum. 



Queensland. In Queensland there is at the present time no otHcial entomologist, 

 although ore of the best bits of printed matter relating to economic entomology which has 

 been issued by any of the Australian colonies emanated from the Queensland Department 

 of Agriculture. In 1889 there was published a report on insects and fungus diseases by 

 Henry Ti yon, who held, and probably still holds, the position of assistant curator of the 

 Queensland Museum at Brisbane. This is a thoroughly practical and very able report, 

 covering some 250 pages, and contains a great amount of important information. The 

 report is designated as No. 1 upon this subject, but No. 2 has, unfortunately, not yet been 

 published. The occasional bulletins issued by the Queensland Department of Agriculture, 

 giving an account of the agricultural conferences held in different districts of the colony, 

 show a very live interest in the warfare against insects, and this has been jjarticularly the 

 €886 since Prof. E. M. Sheiton, an Englishman by birth, but since his early boyhood a resi- 

 dent of America, and long engaged in agricultural teaching and experimental work here, 

 was employed by the Queensland government as instructor in agriculture in 1890. The 

 Department has begun the publication of a series of bulletins giving the results of recent 

 •experiments made at the American agricultural experiment stations, edited by Prof. Shei- 

 ton, in which late entomological information is given. 



South Austr.\lia. The first work on injurious insects in South Australia was done 

 by Mr. Frazer S. Crawford, a practical man of wide I'eading, who interested himself for 

 some years before his lamented death in the study of insects and fungus pests. He 

 read an important paper, under the title of '• Insects and fungus pests," before the first 

 •congress of agricultural bureaus of South Australia in March, 1890, illustrating the paper 

 by careful drawings done and engraved by himself. It is likely that, had Mr. Crawford 

 lived, he would have been appointed official entoaaologist to the colony of South Australia. 

 Since his death, however, a vivid interest in the subject has been kept up, largely through 

 the interest shown in the matter by Garden and Field., an important agricultural news- 

 paper published at Adelaide, the editor of which, Mr. W. C. Grasby, has visited this 

 country, and is very appreciative of the work which has baen done in the United States. 

 The government vitioulturat expert, Prof. A, J. Perkins, is also a man of some ento- 

 mological knowledge, although his researches have mainly been connected with the 

 subject of insects injurious to the vine. 



Victoria. In August, 1890, a conference was held at Melbourne, Victoria, with 

 representatives from the board of viticulture, the council of agricultural education, the 

 different horticultural societies, and wine and fruit growers' associations, for the purpose 

 of considering means for the suppression of insect pests injurious to vegetation ; and 

 partly as a result of this conference and further agitation, Mr. Charles French was, in 

 1891, appointed entomologist to the government of Victoria, under the Department of 

 Agriculture of the Colony. Mr. French'3 work is largely included in the two parts of an 

 important handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria, the hrst part published in 

 1891 and the second in 1893. These reports are written in a popular style, and much 

 attention is given to means of destruction. Their distinguishing feature, however, con- 

 sists in their illustrations, which are colored, and many of which are very lifelike. 



