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themselves especially in the subject of economic entomology and 
are laboring to interest the government. His excellency the governor 
occasionally attends the meetings of the club, and by the institution 
of prizes for essays and by similar means a widespread interest in 
economic entomology is being aroused. The appointment of an official 
entomologist is probably a matter of only a short time. The Journal 
of the Field Naturalists 7 Club is an interesting periodical, full of ento- 
mological information, and is now in its second volume. 
NEW ZEALAND. 
Xew Zealanders have for some time been fully alive to the impor- 
tance of the study of economic entomology. They have passed laws 
concerning the destruction of the codling moth and have made an, 
effort to establish quarantine regulations against the introduction of 
infested substances from abroad. Xo governmental entomologist has 
been appointed, although the Department of Forestry and Agriculture 
published, in 1887, a monograph of the Coccidae, by Mr. W. M. Maskell, 
registrar of the University of Xew Zealand, the title page of which 
reads: "An Account of the Insects Xoxious to Agriculture and Plants 
in Xew Zealand." A second part of this account was promised in an 
introductory note, but has not appeared. Mr. Maskell has also written 
upon injurious insects in some of the Xew Zealand newspapers. Much 
credit is due to a corresponding member of this society, Mr. E. Allan 
Wight, of Auckland, for the public- spirited interest which he has 
taken in economic entomology. Nearly every number of the Xew 
Zealand Farmer for several years has contained lengthy articles from 
his pen, and he has traveled a great deal for the purpose of lecturing 
before fruit growers' associations and other farmers' organizations. 
The editor of the Xew Zealand Farmer has also helped the good work 
along, and has published editorially a number of articles upon the sub- 
ject. New Zealanders are agitating the question of the appointment 
of an official entomologist, but at this date seem to have little hope of 
immediate success. 
VW AIIAX REPUBLIC. 
The newly-organized Hawaiian Eepublic created almost immediately 
a Department of Agriculture and Forestry, and one of the first acts of 
this Department was to secure the appointment of Mr. Albert Koebele 
for three years as entomological expert, at a salary of $3,000 per annum. 
Led by the results of Mr. Koebele's two expeditions in search of the 
natural enemies of injurious scale insects in California to a belief that 
this method of fighting injurious species is of very great importance, 
the Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry has assigned to Mr. 
Koebele the duty of first carefully investigating the entomological sit- 
uation in Hawaii and then traveling in Australia, Xew Zealand, and 
