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bers, each representing a group. This board levies 5 cents a case upon the 

 fruit under their control, and one of the number is elected as manager, and 

 has an office in Los Angeles. His duties are to keep in touch with all the 

 eastern markets ; to send off the fruit to the best advantage ; conduct all 

 sales and office business ; and his expenses are paid out of the 5 cents levy 

 per case. 



Coining back to San Francisco, I stopped half a day at Santa Barbara, 

 and went through the walnut orchards. 



On my return from southern California I went up to Santa Rosa, and saw 

 the hop-fields, and called at Mr. Luther Burbank's nursery ; he declined to 

 receive anyone, but furnished me with a lot of literature on his work. 



I visited the two large Universities, where a considerable amount of ento- 

 mological work is carried out. The University of California is at Berkeley, 

 across the bay from San Francisco, and has a large section of agriculture 

 under the direction of Professor Wickson, with Professor Woodworth in 

 charge of the Entomological Branch, who, while attending to economic 

 research work, gives a regular course of lectures to students. 



The Leland Stanford, junior, University is at Palo Alto, about 68 miles 

 south of San Francisco, and is a modern institution endowed by Mrs. Stan- 

 ford. A great many of the buildings suffered severely from the effects of 

 the earthquake, when San Francisco was wrecked, but this was being rapidly 

 repaired at the time of my visit. This University is under the direction of 

 Dr. Starr Jordan, and Mr. Vernon Kellog, a well-known writer and entomo- 

 logist, is in charge of the entomological work. 



I also met Professor Koebele at his home in Alameda, and went through 

 his large collection of economic specimens from all parts of the world, and 

 obtained specimens of several fruit-flies and the parasite he had bred from 

 the Mexican Fruit Fly. As he intended to go down to Mexico later on in the 

 season, to search for parasites for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, 

 we arranged to meet at Mexico City, after I had been to Washington, and 

 as he had been down in that country on four or five expeditions, it was of 

 great advantage to me to join forces with him in a strange country. 



I left San Francisco on the 17th September, and arrived in Washington 

 on the morning of the 22nd, when I went to the Department of Agriculture, 

 and presented my credentials to Dr. L. O. Howard. Chief of the Bureau of 

 Entomology. He at once took me round and introduced me to all his 

 officers, and, acting on his advice, I visited each officer in turn, and saw the 

 different methods adopted for arranging, mounting, and storing the specimens, 

 tire. The first Bureau of Entomology was formed in 1854, under Townsend 

 Glover. In 1894 it carried an appropriation of 30,000 dollars, and consisted 

 of the chief, with eight scientifically-trained assistants, and three clerks and 

 messengers. 



Speaking before the members of the. Seventh Internation il Zoological 

 Congress at Boston. last year (1907), Dr. Howard said: " At the present 

 time of writing, the entomological service has been given bureau rank ; its 

 budget for the present year is 340,000 dollars, and its pay-roll includes 100 

 scientific assistants and 250 other employees." Tn the Botanical Bureau, 

 which is split up into a number of divisions, there are about seventy trained 

 botanists, without counting a small army of collectors, <fcc. In the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture there are over 10,000 officers. 1 his is the Federal Depart- 

 ment. Outside this, under the Adams Act, there are sixty State Experimental 

 Stations or Agricultural Colleges, one to each State ; and in seven others 

 .special stations are maintained, such as the Pest Crop Commission of Louisiana, 

 .at Baton Ronge, <tc. 



