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British Columbia at present has no Provincial Entomologist 

 owing to the removal of Mr. W. H. Brittain, the occupant of 

 that position for one year, to Nova Scotia. Mr. Thomas 

 Cunningham, the Provincial Inspector of Fruit Pests has charge 

 of the work involved in administering the regulations of the 

 Provincial Horticultural Board governing the control of insect 

 pests and plant diseases. It is largely due to his zeal that the 

 province is so remarkably free from such orchard pests as the 

 San Jose scale and codling moth. The inspection of foreign 

 nursery stock is carried out by a co-operative arrangement 

 with the Dominion Department of Agriculture. 



The Province of Nova Scotia appointed a Provincial Ento- 

 mologist in 1912, Dr. R. Matheson being the first officer. He 

 was succeeded in 1913 by Prof. W. H. Brittain, who is also 

 Professor of Entomology in the provincial Agricultural College 

 at Truro, N. S. In addition to administering the provincial 

 Injurious Insect and Pest Act, and his teaching duties. Prof. 

 Brittain has found time to initiate several important entomol- 

 ogical inquiries. In particular may be mentioned investiga- 

 tions on the aphids affecting apple, the apple maggot and 

 Lygiis invitus. For the purpose of prosecuting this work two 

 provincial field laboratories have been provided, one at Kentville 

 N. S., and the other at Smith's Cove, N. S. All nursery stock 

 entering the province is inspected and fumigated and the 

 Dominion Department of Agriculture has agreed to the inspec- 

 tion and fumigation by the province of foreign nursery stock. 



Since the establishment in the province of Quebec of the 

 Macdonald Agricultural College at St. Annes in 1907, Prof. 

 W. Lochhead and his staff have developed the study and 

 practice of applied entomology in the province and at the 

 present time entomological investigations are being con- 

 ducted there. Much educational work is being accomplished 

 through the Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants from 

 Insect Pests and Fungous Diseases which receives a provincial 

 grant. In 1912 the Abbe V. A. Huard, Curator of the Pro- 

 vincial Museum at Quebec, was appointed Provincial Ento- 

 mologist and he administers a provincial act passed in 1913, 

 providing for the inspection of nurseries in the province. 



In the other provinces of Canada, no provincial entomol- 

 ogists have been appointed and where entomological investi- 

 gations are being conducted they are in connection with one 



