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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



A Review of the Organization of the Hawaiian Entomological 



Society and Brief Mention of Some of the More Notable 



Achievements in Hawaii by Its Members. 



BY WALTER M. GIFFARD, 



On tills, the fifteenth, anniversary of the Hawaiian Entomo- 

 logical Society, it is fitting that the presidential address should 

 be largely devoted to a review of the organization and to the 

 significance of what has been done since the beginning. It is 

 also appropriate that we should recall the objects which led to 

 the formation of the society, and that we should review some 

 of the more notable achievements by the pioneers in this field 

 of labor in Hawaii, and by others who joined later to lend 

 their energy and ability to the advancement of an all-important 

 work. 



It has been said, and with truth, that Hawaii has, in 

 numerous instances, acquainted the world with new and val- 

 uable facts in the inexhaustible mines of entomological re- 

 search, for these remote islands have been the laboratory of a 

 remarkable series of intensely interesting and highly profitable 

 experiments in the introduction of beneficial insects. AVlien 

 these successful tests, often fulfilled only after long and patient 

 scientific field research, and at much expense, are considered 

 in the aggTcgate, it is evident that Hawaii holds a most en- 

 viable record, and that the progress and practical results ol)- 

 tained by the entomologists in these islands more than equal 

 anything of the kind that has so far l^een recorded from any 

 other part of the world. The saving in money, to Hawaii's 

 principal industry, cane sugar, is well nigh incalculable. Xor, 

 heretofore at least, have Hawaii's entomologists ever taken the 

 trouble to sound their own trumpets with regard to their 

 achievements. Visiting scientists have remarked that, in their 

 opinion, we are altogether too modest when we have something 

 worth whih' boastino- al)Out. Hawaiian entomoloo-ists, it has 



