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These regulations do not apply to the experiments of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture in the State of California. 



A Proclamation under the Customs (Importation Prohibition) Law, 

 1916. — Jamaica Gazette, Kingston, xl, no. 14, 5th April 1917. 



The importation into Jamaica of banana plants, suckers, cuttings, 

 etc., or tools used in their cultivation, from any part of Central or 

 South America or the Island of Trinidad, is prohibited by thi^ procla- 

 mation. 



Protection from Disease (Plants) Orders. — Jamaica Gazette, Kingston, 

 xl, no. 14, 5th April 1917. 



Under these orders, any plants imported into Jamaica from the 

 United Kingdom or the United States of America are permitted into 

 the port of Kingston only, where they are to be subjected to fumigation 

 with hydrocyanic acid gas at the rate of one oz. of cyanide for every 

 300 cubic feet of space for a period of one hour. In the case of delicate 

 plants with expanded foliage, half this dose of cyanide will be used and 

 the exposure will be half an hour only. The importation into the 

 island of any agricultural tools or implements that have been used, 

 coming from any country whatsoever, shall only be permitted when 

 a written permit has been obtained from the Director of Agriculture, 

 to whom all such consignments must be addressed, and the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture will then decide whether such tools or implements 

 can be admitted and will carry out any disinfection or fumigation 

 that may be considered necessary to prevent the introduction of 

 disease. Any part of such consignments may be destroyed at the 

 discretion of the Director of Agriculture, without any compensation 

 to the importer of the articles destroyed. Any plants or articles 

 imported contrary to any of the provisions of this Order will be des- 

 troyed by the customs officials, without compensation to the owners 

 of plants or articles so destroyed. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTICES. 



Mr James Waterston, of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, was 

 gazetted Lieutenant R.A.M.C. on the 25th May 1917, and has been 

 detailed for special entomological work with the British Expeditionary 

 Force, Salonica. 



Mr. Nigel K. Jardine has been appointed by the Ceylon Government 

 to a temporary entomological post for the investigation of the Tea 

 Tortrix in that Island. 



