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been remarked, have been inclined to confine tlieir printed in- 

 telligence to the bare if not simple facts of technical descrip- 

 tion, avoiding what, in some fields of endeavor, wonld be a 

 tendency to blare their trinmphs to the world at large. 



Three separate official staffs of entomologists were main- 

 tained in these islands at the time of the organization of the 

 Hawaiian Entomological Society, the oldest of these staffs 

 being the entomological division of the territorial Board of 

 Agricnltnre and Forestry, which, as a matter of fact, dates 

 back to 189o, in the days of the Provisional Government, when 

 Mr. Albert Tvoebele was engaged by the administration to intro- 

 dnce lady-l)irds and other ])eneficial insects to prey on cottony- 

 cushion and other injurious scales then existent in the islands, 

 particularly in Honolulu. 



It was in the early part of 11>0.">, ten years later, that the 

 territorial government orgaui/td the present Board of Agri- 

 culture and Forestry, its entomological division beiug uuide to 

 include Albert Ivoebele, who was appointed to ]>o su])eriuteud- 

 ent. and Dr. R. C. L. Perkins, as assistant su})erinteu(lent. 

 Shortly afterwards, the late Messrs. G. W. Kirkaldy and F. W. 

 Terry were added to the staff. As Superintendent Koebele Avas 

 away on a search for beneficial insects. Doctor Perkins was in 

 reality the hciul of tlu^ entomological organization, the work of 

 Avhich. uiore particularly, IucIikUmI rhe ius])ectiou, under new 

 regulations, of all imported vegetable matter, the idea being to 

 prevent, so far as possible, any further introduction of insect 

 pests by way of the port of ITonoluln. 



As older memlx^rs of this society will recall, Doctor Per- 

 kins and ]\[essrs. Kirkaldy and Terry were appointed to the 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry under an arrangement with 

 and mostly at the expense of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' 

 Association, and under this agreement much of their tiuu' was 

 devoted to the study of insect pests affecting sugar cane, and to 

 the search for and the introduction of beneficial insects to com- 

 bat such pests. Due to the then recent ravages of the sugar 

 cane leaf-hopper in all cane-fields throughout the islands, the 



