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task set these scientists was not withont many dilHculties, and 

 it was deemed essential to the snccessfnl condnct of the cam- 

 paign against sugar-cane pests that the Sugar Planters' Asso- 

 ciation shonld establish and control its own entomological divi- 

 sion, separate and independent of the entomological divi'sion of 

 the territorial Board of Agriculture and Forestry. Therefore, 

 assuming the whole expense, the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' 

 Association, with the official co-operation of the Board of Agri- 

 culture and Forestry, assigned ]\Iessrs. Koebele and Perkins to 

 undertake a search aljroad for some effective enemy to prey on 

 The cane leaf-hopper. Messrs. Kirkakly and Terry remained 

 with the Board of Agriculture and Forestry until the reorgani- 

 zation of the Sugar Planters' Experiment Station was com- 

 plete, after which the late Mr. Alexander Craw was appointed 

 to the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, as entomologist, to 

 fill the position of superintendent in place of Mr. Koebele. 



During the latter part of 100-1, the Sugar Planters con- 

 cluded the reorganization of their experiment station, adding 

 thereto a division of entomology, taking over as members of 

 the staff the entomologists above named, with the exception of 

 Mr. Craw, who remained as superintendent of entomology with 

 the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, and Mr. Jacob Kotin- 

 sky, a later appointee, who acted as assistant on the staff of the 

 board, both of these gentlemen confining their work, in the 

 main, to the inspection of imported plants and other vegetable 

 matter, and to entomological inspection work around the city 

 of FTonolulu. At the same time, Mr. O. -11. Swezey was spe- 

 cially engaged to assist in breeding parasites and in plantation 

 inspection work, and ]\lr. Frederick Muir was engaged to con- 

 tinue further foreigni entomological exploration on much the 

 same lines as had been followed by Messrs. Perkins and 

 Koebele. 



In the meantime, the federal government, through the Bu- 

 reau of Agriculture at Washington, had already established an 

 agricultural station for the purpose of experimenting with and 

 aidiuii' diversified agricultural industries other than sugar cane, 



