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entomologists. The Scientific Secretary is Mr. Guy Marshall, 

 from whose knowledge and energy much may be expected, and 

 he has edited the first number of the ' Bulletin,' which contains 

 several papers of no inconsiderable importance. 



When we consider the large amount of work that has been 

 done in this field by many workers at their own loss in time and 

 money, it is indeed cheering to find our Government at last 

 taking the matter in hand, and by State aid giving an impetus 

 to a study that is important to every civilized community, and 

 which has been raised to the highest consideration in the United 

 States of North America. In South Africa there are already 

 several State entomologists, distributed in the Cape Colony and 

 in the Transvaal, and the outlook is very different to what it 

 was in quite recent times, when President Kruger refused to 

 aid in the destruction of predatory locusts on the ground that 

 those insects had been sent by the Deity as a punishment 

 for the sins of the land. 



