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ON November 2, 1932, a statement of the work and objects of the Pacific Entomological Survey was made before the Royal Entomological Society of London, as a result of which a resolution was passed unanimously inviting Dr. S. A. Neave to write and commend the work in the name of this Society, of which he later became president. On November 26 of the same year an appeal was issued in NATURE (130, 802–3 ; 1932), and further generous support was, despite the depression, forthcoming from various sources in Hawaii and elsewhere. Then, in 1935–37, liberal grants through the trustees of the will of the late Viscount Leverhulme and through the British Museum (Natural History) enabled Mr. E. P. Mumford, director of the Survey, to accept Sir Edward Poulton's invitation to complete the present phase of the work in the Oxford University Museum, where Sir Edward's successor, Prof. G. D. Hale Carpenter, is extending the hospitality of the Hope Department. The work of the Survey is of interest to all countries the territories of which either surround or extend into the Pacific, for, as Dr. Neave points out in the letter referred to above, “a knowledge of the fauna of all the Pacific Islands may well be of the utmost value in the more cultivated and developed ones, in that it may give a clue to the origin of many of the local pests of the latter, and thus point to opportunities for devising their biological control”.
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Pacific Entomological Survey. Nature 141, 196 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141196a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141196a0