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No. 4.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 4.20 a.m., 8th May, 1913.)
TELEGRAM.
Your despatch, 3rd October, No. 96.* Government of South Australia does not wish to detail at present representative on Entomological Research Committee, but has appointed corresponding member. Lettert follows.-Bosanquet.
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No. 5. QUEENSLAND.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 19 May, 1913.)
[Answered by No. 10.]
(No. 19.) SIR,
Government House, Brisbane, 12 April, 1913. WITH reference to your despatch, No. 24, of the 20th of February last, informing me of the progress that has been made with the scheme for setting up an Imperial Bureau of Entomology in London, I have the honour to enclose herewith a copy of a letter from my Acting Chief Secretary, from which it appears that a parcel of entomological literature has been sent direct to the Director of the Bureau, and that steps will be taken to empower the Agent-General to represent the Government of Queensland on the Management Committee of the Bureau.
Gumming of Cane.
Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol I., 1894.—" Cryptolæ mus Montrouzieri, or The Scale
Insects' Enemy."
Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. I., 1894.-" Insects as Fungus Hosts."
The Destruction of Fruit and Vegetable Pests.
Extracts from "The Queensland Agricultural Journal."
Vegetable Pathology. On Two Prickly Pear Affections. Wild Cochineal Insect.
Maize Blight.
Entomology. Cheese Mites.
White Ants.
Vegetable Pathology.-Potatoes, Inspection and Treatment. Plant Pathology.-Potato Disease.
Vegetable Pathology.-Disease in Tomatoes.
Entomology.-Bees and Orange Blossoms
Entomology.-Orange-piercing Moths (Fam. Ophiderina).
Some Obstacles to Successful Sugar-Cane Cultivation.
A Parasite of Sugar-Cane Beetle Grubs.
Nematode Root Gall.
Black Spot" Disease of the Grape Vine and its Treatment. Vegetable Pathology. Grape Fruit-rots.
Fruitlet Core-rot of Pineapple.
Pineapple Mealy Bug (Dactylopius bromelia, Bouche).
Plant Pests.-Vaginula Slugs (Vaginula Hedleyi and V. Leydigi). Entomology.-Pernicious or San José Scale.
Entomology-Grasshopper Destruction.
Entomology.-Scale Insects (C'occide).
Directions for Forwarding Speciments (Entomology and Plant Pathology). Animal Pathology.-Verminous Tumours in Cattle.
Extracts from Second Annual Report of the Administrator of British New Guinea
I have, &c.,
WILLIAM MACGREGOR,
Governor.
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on "Rhopalocera" and "Coleoptera" collected in New Guinea.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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SIR,
Enclosure in No. 5.
Chief Secretary, Queensland,
Brisbane, 10th April, 1913. WITH reference to despatch (Queensland, No. 24), dated 20th February last, received by Your Excellency from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the subject of the scheme for setting up an Imperial Bureau of Entomology in London, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that, in accord- ance with the request contained in the third paragraph of the despatch, a parcel of entomological literature, as detailed on the accompanying list, has been forwarded direct to Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, the Director of the Bureau.
With regard to representation on the Management Committee, I may inform Your Excellency that steps will be taken to empower the Agent-General to represent this Government thereat.
His Excellency
The Governor, Brisbane.
I have, &c.,
A. H. BARLOW,
Acting Chief Secretary.
LIST OF PAMPHLETS TO BE SENT TO THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, LONDON. The Disease Affecting the Orange Orchards of Wide Bay, and the Insect Pests
prevalent therein.
Natural Enemies of the Potato and How to Fight Them.
No. 70 in Miscellaneous No. 271.
† No. 11.
SIR,
(No. 144.)
No. 6.
JAMAICA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 19 May, 1913.)
King's House, Jamaica, 26 April, 1913. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, Miscellaneous, dated the 29th March, 1913,* respecting the proposal to appoint an entomologist on the staff of the Agricultural Department of this Colony, and suggesting that the matter should again be brought before the Privy Council.
2. In reply, I beg leave to say that I shall not fail to endeavour to impress on the Privy Council the desirability, upon both agricultural and medical grounds, for the appointment of an entomologist.
3. With reference to your despatch, Miscellaneous, of the 19th November, 1912,† and the second paragraph of Sir Sydney Olivier's despatch, No. 454, of the 31st December last, in reply, I have the honour to report that the Legislative Council have voted a sum of £50 as this Colony's contribution towards the expenses of the Entomological Research Committee for the year 1913-14, and I would ask you to be so good as to direct the Crown Agents to pay that amount to the Committee.
[] No. 141 in Miscellaneons No. 271.
No. 133 in Miscellaneous No. 271.
I have, &c.,
W. H. MANNING,
Governor.
↑ No. 81 in Miscellaneous No. 271.
No. 113 in Miscellaneous No. 271.