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Leeii remarked, have been inclined to confine their printed in- 

 telligence to the bare if not simple facts of technical descrip- 

 tion, avoiding what, in some fields of endeavor, wonld be a 

 tendency to blare their trinmphs to the world at large. 



Three separate official staffs of entomologists were main- 

 tained in these islands at the time of the organization of the 

 Hawaiian Entomological Society, the oldest of these staffs 

 being the entomological division of the teri'itorial Board of 

 Agricnltnre and Forestry, which, as ;i matter of fact, dates 

 back to 1893, in the days of the Provisional (Jovernment, when 

 Mr. Albert Koebele was engaged by the administration to intro- 

 dnce lady-birds and other beneficial insects to ])rey on coftony- 

 onshion and other injni'ions scales then existcMit in the islands, 

 particnlarly in Honolnln. 



It was in the early ])art of 100.'], ten years later, that the 

 territorial government organized the ])i'esent P)oar(l of Agri- 

 cidtnre and Forestry, its entomological division being made to 

 inclnde Albert Koebele, who was appointed to be snperintend- 

 ent, and Dr. Ti.. C L. Pei'kins, as assistant superintendent. 

 Shortly afterwards, the late Messrs. G. W. Kirkaldy and F. W. 

 Terry were added to the staff. As Superintendent Koebele was 

 away on a search for beneficial insects. Doctor Perkins was in 

 reality the head of the entomological organization, the work of 

 Avhich. more particnlai'ly, inclnded the inspection, under new 

 regulations, of all imported vegetable matter, the idea being to 

 prevent, so far as possilde, any further introdnction of insect 

 pests by way of the ]^ort of Honolnln. 



As older members of this society will I'ecall, Doctor Per- 

 kins and Messrs. Kirkaldy and Terry were appointed to the 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry nnder an arrangement with 

 and mostly at the expense of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' 

 Association, and under this agreement much of their time was 

 devoted to the study of insect pests affecting sugar cane, and to 

 the search for and the introduction of beneficial insects to com- 

 bat such pests. Due to the then recent ravages of the sugar 

 cane leaf-hopper in all cane-fields throughout the islands, the 



