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IN the early part of the century the importance of entomology to the health services and to agriculture in the Overseas Empire was at last beginning to be realized. In 1909 the Entomological Research Committee of the Colonial Office was formed, with Sir Guy Marshall as scientific secretary. In 1913, when the Committee extended its outlook and became the Imperial Bureau, and later the Imperial Institute of Entomology, Sir Guy became director, and he has just retired ; he has thus guided the fortunes of entomologists in the Government Services abroad for more than thirty years, ably supported by Dr. S. A. Neave, who has been assistant director since 1913. The period has seen great changes in the position of entomology in the Empire. From a few isolated workers, largely unaware of each other's work, or even of each other's existence, there has developed a small army of several hundred field workers ; and much of this progress has been due to the Imperial Institute of Entomology. Instead of being completely out of touch with work elsewhere, the field entomologists have had the invaluable Review of Applied Entomology, which has summarized progress in agricultural and medical entomology for the past thirty years. It is difficult to-day to imagine how one got on without this journal.
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Imperial Institute of Entomology. Nature 150, 205 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150205a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150205a0