[BETHUNE] RECENT WORK IN ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 15 
best remedies for them cannot fail to be of immense benefit to the whole 
community. 
At the Central Experimental Farm the Dominion Entomologist and 
Botanist, Dr. James Fletcher, continues his valuable work, but he is 
severely hampered by the want of an adequate staff and proper appliances 
for experimental investigations. Last year Mr. Arthur Gibson, Presi- 
dent of the Toronto branch of the Entomological Society, was appointed 
as an assistant and has already proved himself a most useful coadjutor, 
but what can three men do in a country that stretches from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific, from the great lakes to the Arctic Ocean? The Geologi- 
cal Survey has for years been provided with a staff ten times greater and 
has accomplished an enormous amount of most valuable work ; it does 
not seem unreasonable that entomologists should cry out for a similar 
body of able men, when the same amount of territory has to be covered 
and when the objects of research involve the annual loss to the country 
af millions of dollars of money. 
The appointment of Mr. William Lochhead to the professorship of 
the biological department of the Ontario Agricultural College of 
Guelph, has proved to be an admirable one. He has infused new zeal 
and enthusiasm among his students and has performed much useful work 
for the public by the publication of timely bulletins and papers on noxi- 
ous insects; he has also been employed as an expert superintendent of 
the fumigation of nursery stock with hydrocyanic acid gas, that has been 
already alluded to. 
In the United States more attention has been paid to economic en- 
tomology than in any other part of the world and more progress has con- 
sequently been made. There are now at least fifty different experimental 
stations, one in almost every State in the Union, and in some more than 
ene, in which trained entomologists are engaged in practical work, and 
in addition there is at Washington a splendidly organized division of 
entomology in connection with the Department of Agriculture. The 
director is the widely-known Dr. L. O. Howard, who has gathered round 
him a staff of thoroughly trained and able men, and is able at all times to 
send into distant fields where some insect outbreak is threatened a man 
fully competent to carry out all necessary investigations and to make on 
the spot the requisite observations. We, in this country, owe very much 
to the publications so profusely issued by the various State entomologists, 
and especially to those that emanate from the division at Washington, 
whose scientific as well as practical value is beyond all praise. 
In the British Isles, strange to say, little if any official recognition 
has been given to the importance of observations of injurious insects. It 
has been left to a woman, Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, to investigate the 
