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MR. ALEXANDER CRAW. 
The recent decease of Alexander Craw in California, 
where he had repaired in the hope of reestablishing his impaired 
health, deprives the Territory of a valued and efficient officer and 
his associates of a sincere and sympathetic friend. 
Of Scotch ancestrv, Alexander Craw received an horticultural 
education and early in his career was appointed second in charge 
of the propagating department of the Royal Nurseries at Ascot, 
England. He afterwards became manager of the nurseries of 
Messrs. Martin and Sons, of Cottingham, and after an appoint- 
ment at San Diego, California, he was for twelve years in charge 
of the W'olfskill orange and lemon groves. In 1890 he was ap- 
pointed State Horticultural Quarantine Officer at San Francisco 
by the State Board of Horticulture. In this capacity he earned 
an unassailable reputation for his success in combatting agricul- 
tural pests by means of their natural enemies. Of this system of 
checking crop enemies he was for many years the foremost and 
most successful exponent, and together with such workers as 
Messrs. Koebele and Compere formed a group of economic ento- 
mologists whose labors are exercising a most beneficial influence 
upon many important agricultural industries. 
Chiefly through the indomitable perseverance of Alexander 
Craw, Albert Koebele was dispatched on a mission to discover 
a natural enemy to the Cottony Cushion Scale, which was threat- 
ening to extirpate the citrus groves of California. As a result of 
this expedition Vcdalia CardinaUs was introduced to California, 
and thus was preserved to the State an industry which has played 
no mean part in the development of her prosperity. So vigilant 
and successful was the system of horticultural quarantine inspec- 
tion enforced that it is believed that during Mr. Craw's term of 
office no new agricultural pests were introduced to California. 
With the actual introduction and establishment of the Navel 
orange to California Mr. Craw had much to do, and his name 
will forever be associated with the agricultural developnlfent of 
that State. 
In 1904 Mr. Craw was appointed Superintendent of Ento- 
mology by the Board of Agriculture and Forestry of Hawaii. 
Since then his energy has been chiefly directed to establishing 
means of combatting the existant agricultural pests of the Islands 
and to enforcing quarantine regulation for the exclusion of addi- 
tional ones. In this work Mr. Craw was most successful and the 
securing of his services to the Territory has resulted most bene- 
ficially to the agricultural operations of Hawaii. 
