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and contains a great amount of important information. The report is 
designated as No. 1 upon this subject, but No. 2 has, unfortunately, 
not yet been published. The occasional bulletins issued by the Queens- 
land Department of Agriculture, giving an account of the agricultural 
conferences held in different districts of the colony, show a very live 
interest in the warfare against insects, and this has been particularly 
the case since Prof. E. M. Shelton, an Englishman by birth, but since 
his early boyhood a resident of America, and long engaged in agricul- 
tural teaching and experimental work here, was employed by the 
Queensland government as instructor in agriculture in 1800. The 
Department has begun the publication of a series of bulletins giving 
the results of recent experiments made at the American agricultural 
experiment stations, edited by Prof. Shelton, in which late entomolog- 
ical information is given. 
South Australia. — The first work on injurious insects in South 
Australia was done by Mr. Frazer S. Crawford, a practical man of 
wide reading, who interested himself for some years before his 
lamented death in the study of insects and fungus pests. He read an 
important paper, under the title of "Insect and fungus pests, n before 
the first congress of agricultural bureaus of South Australia in March, 
1890, illustrating the paper by careful drawings done and engraved by 
himself. It is likely that, had Mr. Crawford lived, he would have been 
appointed official entomologist to the colony of South Australia. Since 
his death, however, a vivid interest in the subject has been kept up, 
largely through the interest shown in the matter by Garden and Field, 
an important agricultural newspaper published at Adelaide, the editor 
of which, Mr. W. C. Grasby, has visited this country, and is very appre- 
ciative of the work which has been done in the United States. The 
government viticultural expert, Prof. A. J. Perkins, is also a man of 
some entomological knowledge, although his researches have mainly 
been connected with the subject of insects injurious to the vine. 
Victoria. — In August, 1890, a conference was held at Melbourne, 
Victoria, with representatives from the board of viticulture, the council 
of agricultural education, the different horticultural societies, and wine 
and fruit growers' associations, for the purpose of considering means 
for the suppression of insect pests injurious to vegetation ; and partly 
as a result of this conference and further agitation, Mr. Charles 
French was, in 1891, appointed entomologist to the government of Vic- 
toria, under the Department of Agriculture of the Colony. Mr. French's 
work is largely included in the two parts of an important handbook of 
the Destructive Insects of Victoria, the first part published in 1891 and 
the second in 1893. These reports are written in a popular style, and 
much attention is given to means of destruction. Their distinguishing 
feature, however, consists in their illustrations, which are colored, and 
many of which are very lifelike. 
