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The first new face that we welcomed was Mr. Ralph Hopping, who 

 was appointed under Dr. Swaine's Forest Insect Division, and who arrived 

 in December, 1919, to take charge of special forest-insect investigations 

 in this Province. Mr. Hopping came direct from California, and he 

 brought with him not only the best private collection of beetles on the 

 West Coast, but also a standard of knowledge on beetle-life which has 

 been gained as a result of twenty years' experience in this group. He 

 is regarded as one of the leading students on forest-insect life on the 

 West Coast, and his allocation to British Columbia was not only a direct 

 loss to the United States, but a most decided acquisition to Canada and 

 to the Province of British Columbia in particular. The next most 

 important item in this year's history is the advent for the first time 

 into the field of entomology of students from the University of British 

 Columbia. Three were employed this year. Mr. Alphonse Crawford, 

 undergraduate in medicine, was delegated to assist Mr. Eric Hearle in 

 his mosquito studies on the Lower Eraser; Mr. N. L. Cutler, biology 

 student, was posted to the entomological laboratory at Vernon to under- 

 take the collecting of insect specimens for the University collection, the 

 specimens to be collected individually and in bulk for the use of the 

 students at the University during this present winter; Miss A. C. Healey, 

 art student, as laboratory assistant at the Vernon Laboratory. All of 

 these students were on temporary employ for the summer months, ter- 

 minating their services in time to return to \'ancouver to continue their 

 graduate studies. 



Mr. A. B. Baird received temporary assistance this year in the person 

 of Mr. R. Glendenning, and on the termination of the special natural- 

 control investigations and the return of Mr. Baird to the East, Mr. Glen- 

 denning was enlisted for temporary service as assistant to Mr. Downes 

 at Victoria. Mr. Buckell, as previously mentioned, went north this year 

 to the Chilcotins on special range-work, and Mr. Ruhmann continued 

 his studies of vegetable insects at Vernon, as did Mr. Venables on tree- 

 fruit insects. Another innovation instituted at the Vernon Laboratory 

 this year for the first time in the Province was the employment, under 

 the Provincial Department of Agriculture, of two laboratory boys — boys 

 who by reason of the fact that they showed umnistakable ability in 

 natural-history studies were thought fit to pin, mount, collect, and take 

 simple field-notes on insect-life in the field. It is hoped that if this idea 

 is persevered in we may be able to build up entomologists for the future. 



During this year, and commencing with the auturnn sessions of the 

 University, Dr. C. McLean Eraser, of the Marine Biological Station at 

 Nanaimo, was appointed as Zoologist. Dr. Eraser lectured to the 

 students during the 1919 sessions at the Universit}^, dealing with insects 

 as a phase of the zoological science, and to him and to Dr. A. H. 

 Hutchinson, Biologist, we are indebted for available students for field- 

 work in the Province during the past year. Similar courses are again 

 being held this year, but, I believe, for the first time, will a course be 



