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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



A Review of the Organization of the Hawaiian Entomological 



Society and Brief Mention of Some of the More Notable 



Achievements in Hawaii by Its Members. 



BY WALTER M. GIFFAKD. 



On this, the hfteenth, anniversary of the Hawaiian Eiuomo- 

 logical Society, it is litting that the presidential address should 

 be largely devoted to a review of the organization and to ilu; 

 significance of what has been done since the beginning. It is 

 also appropriate that we should recall the objects which led to 

 the formation of the society, and that we should review some 

 of the more notable achievements by tbe pioneers in this field 

 of labor in Hawaii, and by others who joined later to lend 

 their energy and ability to the advancement of an all-important 

 Avork. 



It has been said, and witli truth, ibat Hawaii lias, in 

 numerous instances, acquainted the world with new and val- 

 uable facts in the inexhaustible mines of entomological re- 

 search, for these remote islands have been the laboratory of a 

 remarkable series of intensely interesting and highly profitable 

 experiments in the introduction of beneficial insects. Wlicu 

 these successful tests, often fulfilled only after long and patient 

 scientific field research, and at much expense, are considered 

 in the aggregate, it is evident that Hawaii holds a most en- 

 viable record, and tliat tbe ])rogress and practical results ob- 

 tained by the (entomologists in these islands more than e(iual 

 anything of the kind that has so far been recorded from any 

 other part of the Avorld. The saving iu money, to Hawaii's 

 jirincipal industry, cane sugar, is w(>ll nigh incalculable. Xor, 

 heretofore at least, have Hawaii's eutoniologists ever taken the 

 trouble to sound their own truui])cts with regard to their 

 achievements. Visiting scientists have reuuii-ked tliat, iu ibeir 

 opinion, we are altogether too modest wlicu we have sometliing 

 Worth while l)oastiiig about. Hawaiian cutoiuoloa'ists, ir has 



