93 
Miss Ormerod published a leaflet entitled Observations on the Austra- 
lian Bug. treating the insect from the South African standpoint. For 
several years, from 1889 to 1893, Mr. Louis Peringuey, an officer of the 
South African Museum at Cape Town, was employed as entomo- 
logical adviser to the Department of Agriculture, and drew £109 per 
annum for his services. His duties in the Museum, however, did not 
permit him to devote anything like his entire time to entomological 
work, and in his advisory functions he chiefly answered questions as to 
the names of insects and the best remedies for insect pests. Acting 
upon his advice, the government attempted to stamp out the Phyl- 
loxera by means of the bisulphide of carbon treatment, but without 
success, and he resigned his office in 1893. Since that time, and in fact 
for some time previously, the director of the Botanic Garden at Cape 
Town, Prof. P. MacOwan. a man of very wide information, although 
not a trained entomologist, has answered entomological questions for 
the government. His communications, most of them subsequently 
published in the Agricultural Journal, show him to be a clear-headed, 
practical man. and it is a pity for the interests of the colony that he is 
too much interested in his garden and botanical work to take up 
economic entomology as a study. Mr. MacOwan modestly writes, 
under date of April 11, 1894: 
Unfortunately, I have been in the habit of reading everything that comes in the 
•way and indexing it, so that really they consult my indexes. It is only thus, in the 
rough, practical way that a garden director, in a dozen years, gets some acquaint- 
ance with injurious and beneficial insects, that I have answered questions of economic 
entomology. I only know what I have seen and fought against in the Botanic- 
Garden, and anybody is welcome to such experience. * * * I only wish we 
could get some such man as seems to be raised easily in the States to do practical 
science -work in the love of it. 
AUSTRALIA. 
The Australian colonies of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland. 
South Australia, and Tasmania have all interested themselves to a 
very considerable extent in the subject of economic entomology. With 
an energy and receptivity to new ideas akin to our own. their agricul- 
tural societies and departments of agriculture have not been content to 
allow injurious insects full sway, but all have, in one form or another, 
made efforts to remedy the damage. 
Tasmania. — The earliest attempts were made in Tasmania nearly 
twenty years ago, when the codling-moth act was introduced in the 
legislative assembly. The provisions of this act were quite as wisely 
drawn as those of any subsequent injurious-insect legislation. It was 
not until 1891, however, that a definite council of agriculture was estab- 
lished by this colony, and not until 1892 that an official entomologist 
was appointed. In February, 1892, Eev. Edward II. Thompson, a 
clergyman of the Church of England and a nataralist of very consid- 
erable attainments, who had made himself prominent in this connection 
