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other countries for the purpose of collecting and transmitting to 
Hawaii insects which will prey upon native and introduced insect 
pests. Mr. Koebele was appointed in the summer of 1893, and is at 
present in Australia engaged in this work. 
IN CONCLUSION. 
In concluding a review of this character, an American writer may 
perhaps be pardoned for an exhibition of national pride. Writing in 
1870, Dr. A. S. Packard, in his First Annual Report upon the Inju- 
rious and Beneficial Insects of Massachusetts, compared the attention 
paid to economic entomology in this country with that which it received 
or had received up to that time in Europe, very much to our own dis- 
credit. In the twenty-four years which have intervened the change 
has been vast. All of the great advances in our science have come 
from America, and it may justly be said that, aside from the one depart- 
ment of forestry insects, the whole world looks to America for instruc- 
tion in economic entomology. 
These great advances, we must remember, would not have been pos- 
sible without legislative encouragement. Activity on the part of 
workers and appreciation on the part of the people and their represent- 
atives have gone hand in hand. At the present time the amount of 
money expended for work in economic entomology is far greater in 
this country than in any other. Our regular annual expenditure in 
the support of entomological offices amounts to about $100,000, very 
nearly all of which is appropriated by the General Government, $29,000 
going to the Division of Entomology of the Department of Agriculture 
and about $60,000 to experiment-station entomologists. To this amount 
must be added the large sums expended annually in publishing our 
reports and bulletins. The sum total thus reached will probably exceed 
the amount expended in this direction by the entire remainder of the 
world. Much more is therefore to be expected from American workers 
than from workers in other countries. The American members of this 
association must bear this fact in mind, and must realize that with the 
present rapid increase in interest among other nations nothing but the 
most energetic and painstaking work will result in the retention by the 
United States of her present prominent position. In some respects 
our results have not been commensurate with our opportunities, but we 
have certainly justified in vast degree the money expenditure which 
has enabled us to prosecute our work. Not a year passes in which the 
sum saved to agriculture and horticulture, as the direct result of our 
work, does not amount to many times that which the Government 
appropriates, as has been often shown, and notably by our former presi- 
dent, Mr. James Fletcher, in his most able and interesting address at 
our Washington meeting in 1891. 
In the good which has been accomplished in the way of remedial 
work against insects, the work of the official economic entomologists 
