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fully half the number are men who have seen active service at the Front. 

 If the progress shown during the past two years is continued, the outlook for 

 our science is bright indeed. I propose mentioning briefly the progress of 

 entomology in the Province for the past few years on the supposition that 

 our historical notes may become confused with the wealth of data we expect 

 to appear in the near future. 



During 1914 the writer, who had charge of the Dominion Entomo- 

 logical Laboratory and Field Station at Agassiz, published Bulletin No. 8 

 of the Dominion series on the strawberry-root weevil. This publication 

 was based on studies carried on at Hatzic during 1912 and 1913. It is 

 interesting to note that this bulletin was the last to appear as an Entomo- 

 logical Division bulletin of the Experimental Farm system. The formation 

 of the Dominion Entomological Branch as a separate Department under the 

 Dominion Department of Agriculture took place under the ffigis of Dr. 

 C. Gordon Hewitt on February 26th, 1914. During the summers of 1914 

 and 191 5 the writer was engaged in a study of the cabbage-root maggot, the 

 wheat-midge, and other insects of local interest in the Lower Eraser 

 Valley. 



All entomological investigation up until the close of 191 5 under the 

 auspices of the Dominion entomological service took place in the Lower 

 Mainland and Island. • It will be recalled that Mr. W. H. Brittain, who 

 entered the Province in the spring of 1912 as Provincial Entomologist and 

 Plant Pathologist, established his headquarters at Vernon, in the Okanagan 

 Valley. The interior sections of the Province were thus under his care, 

 and it may be stated that Mr. Brittain and the writer agreed to this tentative 

 division of territory so as to avoid all possibility of conflict in the matter 

 of investigating insect problems. Unfortunately, Mr. Brittain left the 

 Province in 1913 to return to Nova Scotia. Mr. J. W. Eastham succeeded 

 him at Vernon in the spring of 1914. Mr. Eastham, being a plant patholo- 

 gist in leanings, delegated Mr. M. H. Ruhmann, his assistant, to conduct 

 such studies as were necessary in entomology. Mr. W. H. Lyne, operating 

 under Mr. Thomas Cunningham's division of Provincial fruit inspection, 

 conducted certain field-work operations, assisted by his staff of local field 

 inspectors, against the codling-moth. In the New Year of 191 5 the new 

 Provincial Court-house at \'ernon was completed and the Provincial Ento- 

 mological Branch took up its quarters in this building under the direction 

 of Mr. J- W. Eastham. During the summer of 1915 Mr. Eastham decided 

 to move to Vancouver, where he establisheed pathological headquarters in 

 the Vancouver Court-house, the A^ernon office being maintained under the 

 direction of Mr. M. H. Ruhmann. 



The only other publications of note during the years of 1914 and 1915 

 were those by Dr. Seymour Hadwen, Animal Pathologist at Agassiz, on 

 tick paralysis, anaphylaxis of cattle, sheep and horses, and the warble-flies. 



During 19 14 no new serious insect pests were recorded, and with the 

 exception of certain outbreaks of codling-moth and a severe infestation of 

 locusts in the Nicola Valley little of interest occurred. 



