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task set these scientists was nut withont many difHcnlties. and 

 it was deemed essential t(t the snceessfid condnet of the cam- 

 paign against sngav-cane ])ests that the Sugar Phmters' Asso- 

 ciation shonld establish and control its own entomological divi- 

 sion, separate and independent of the entomological division of 

 the territorial Board of Agricnltnre and Forestry. Therefore, 

 assuming the whole expense, the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' 

 Association, with the othcial c(»-()peration of the Board of Agri- 

 culture and Forestrv, assigned Messrs. Koehele and Perkins to 

 imdertake a search ahroad for some effective enemy to prey on 

 the cane leaf-hopper. Messrs. Kirkaldy aiid Terry remained 

 wirh rhe Board of Agriculture and Forestry until the reorgani- 

 zation of the Sugar Planters' Ex])eriment Station was coin- 

 plete, after which the late Air. Alexander Craw was apj)ointed 

 to the Board of .Vgriculture and Forestrv, as entomologist, to 

 till the ])osition of su])ei-intcn(lent in ])lace of ^Mr. Koehele. 



Dni'ing the latter part of 11M)4, rhe Sugar Plantei's con- 

 cluded the reorganization of their ex])criment station, a<lding 

 thereto a division of entomology, taking over as nuMuhers of 

 the staff the entomologists ahove named, witli the cxcc])tion of 

 Mr. Craw, who remained as su])crintendent of entomology with 

 the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, and Mr. .lacol) Kc^iu- 

 sky, a latei- a])])ointee, who acted as assistant on the statl" of the 

 hoard, hotli of these gentlemen confining their work, in the 

 main, to the inspection of imported ])lants and other vegetahh^ 

 mattei", and to entomological ins])ection work around the city 

 of Honohdn. .\t the same time. Mi'. (). II. Swezey was spe- 

 cially engaged to assist in hreeding ])arasites and in plantation 

 inspection work, and ^Ir. Fredei-ick ^luir was engaged to con- 

 tinue further foreign entomological exploration on much the 

 same lines as ha<l l)een followe(| hy Messrs. Perkins and 

 Koehele. 



In the meantinu\ the federal government, through the Bn- 

 rean of Agricultui'c at Washington, lia<l already esta!)lished an 

 agricultural station f(»r the ]»ui-|)ose of ex])erimenting with and 

 aiding diversified agrienltnral indnsti'ies other than sugar cane, 



