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organizations, and the incessant pressure he brought to bear hj means 

 of these upon authoritie:- m Washington was to a considerable degree 

 responsible for Koebele's victorious mission. Once victory w^as 

 achieved and that so completely and in such an unusual manner he 

 was possessed with the idea of controlling all horticultural insect pests 

 by means of their natural enemies. 



About 1890 he was prevailed upon to accept the office of inspector 

 and entomologist under the California State Board of Horticulture, 

 a line of work not previously undertaken anywhere and in which he 

 spent the remainder of his life. Always kindly, yet always firm in 

 the performance of his duty, he stood for fourteen years like a rock 

 at the Golden Gate and jealously guarded his adopted state from hor- 

 ticultural pests of the world. All opposition he swept aside with a 

 smile, without making a foe or losing a friend. He was a keen ob- 

 server, so that by 1891 we find him not only familiar with the com- 

 mon garden and orchard pests but describing a species of his favorite 

 group, Hymenoptera Parasitica {Coccophagus [=Aspidiotiphagus] 

 citrinus, Bull. 57, California State Board of Horticulture, 1891). His 

 writings are not profuse, and are confined almost entirely to periodical 

 reports, in which he aimed principally to enlighten his horticultural 

 readers on their insect problems as he viewed them. In Bull. 4, Tech. 

 Ser., Division of Entomology, U. S. D. A., he published a list of the 

 Coccidas which he found in course of inspection at San Francisco. A 

 number of species and varieties named Craivii may be observed in 

 catalogues of this family. 



In 1904 he was induced to enter the service of the Hawaiian Board 

 of Agriculture as Superintendent of Entomology and Inspector. This 

 office he filled in the same efficient manner that he had carried on the 

 work in California, proving of great benefit to Hawaii in the exclusion 

 of dangerous insect pests, and resulting in a better quality of fruits 

 and vegetables being shipped here. His devotion to duty had the bet- 

 ter of discretion, so that when on October 11, 1907. he was overtaken 

 by the serious illness which on June 28, 1908, terminated his life, it 

 was largelj" the result of overwork. 



Jacob Kotixsky. 



FKAXCIS HUNTINGTON SNOW 



We regret to record the death on September 28, of Dr. F. H. Snow, 

 for many years head of the Department of Entomology and Chan- 

 cellor of the University of Kansas from 1889 to 1901. A more fitting 

 notice of Dr. Snow and his work will appear in a subsequent issue. 



