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parcels post are inspected and examined. 

 Disinfection by hydrocyanic acid gas is 

 carried on and charges are imposed on the 

 importer covering the expenses incurred. 

 Demonstrations and spraying experiments 

 have been carried on in the orchards and 

 gardens of South Australia under Mr. 

 Quinn's direction, and much work has been 

 done during the last ten years in testing 

 remedies, publishing bulletins, and in giv- 

 ing lectures and personal advice. Mr. 

 Quinn has three permanent assistants deal- 

 ing with exports and imports. Moreover, 

 about nine inspectors for orchard districts 

 have been and will be employed. These 

 men are selected from the best informed 

 fruit growers in each district and are em- 

 ployed about six months in the year. Mr. 

 Quinn also acts an instructor in horticiil- 

 tural matters and expends in his branch of 

 the service about $8,000 a year. 



In New South Wales, Mr. W. "W. Frog- 

 gatt on the death of Mr. A. Sidney OUiff 

 was appointed government entomologist 

 and attends to all of the correspondence on 

 that subject, travels through the state 

 making investigations, lectures on economic 

 entomology, has an insectary where the 

 necessary breeding tests are carried on, and 

 has a laboratory and office in Sydney. The 

 results of his investigations are detailed in 

 articles published in the New South Wales 

 Agricultural Gazette, and a short annual 

 report is also published in the Gazette. 

 Mr. Froggatt left New South Wales as a 

 representative of the whole Australian 

 federation with letters of introduction 

 from the different premiers and the dif- 

 ferent departments of agriculture of the 

 individual states, on the eighth of July, 

 last, for a visit to the United States and 

 other countries. He is an admirably 

 equipped man of broad knowledge in the 

 whole field of natural history and has 

 achieved admirable results in his investiga- 

 tions. His recently published volume on 



"Australian Insects" shows his very com- 

 petent grasp of the subject and his in- 

 dustry as a worker. 



At the Hawkesbury Agricultural College 

 in New South Wales— a government insti- 

 tution under the department of agricul- 

 ture — economic entomology is dealt with as 

 one of the subjects, and a course of thirty- 

 two lectures and fifteen practical exercises 

 is gone through during the second year of 

 the student's residence. The work covers 

 instruction in insect structure, chief pests, 

 useful insects and treatment, the latter be- 

 ing well illustrated in practise by orchard 

 operations carried on in an up-to-date 

 manner. This work is under the charge 

 of Professor Charles T. Musson, who, how- 

 ever, covers in his work botany, vegetable 

 pathology and nature study, with one gen- 

 eral assistant. 



During the past year a bill passed the 

 New South Wales Legislature giving power 

 to enforce certain action relative to the 

 codling moth and fruit fly, and inspectors 

 to carry out the work have been appointed. 

 The fruit expert of the department carries 

 on a good deal of work in fumigation and 

 spraying, mostly for demonstration and in- 

 struction purposes in the course of his 

 travels throughout the state, and the sub- 

 ject is being introduced into the schools 

 as a part of nature study. 



In Queensland Mr. Henry Tryon, whose 

 excellent publications are well known to 

 American entomologists, is still connected 

 with the department of agriculture as ento- 

 mologist and vegetable pathologist, as well 

 as inspector under the diseases of plants 

 act. He supervises all plant importations 

 and exportations, and has no assistants. 

 His offices are in the department of agri- 

 culture in the center of the city of Bris- 

 bane, and he has slight opportunity for 

 field experimentation. At the time of the 

 last address Mr. Tryon was an assistant 

 curator in the Queensland Museum, but 



