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UNDER this title, Dr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion entomologist, Ottawa, has discussed the more important developments in applied entomology in Canada during the past fifty years. His paper is published in the Transactions of the Seventh International Congress for Entomology, held in Berlin in 1938, pp. 1429–1479. James Fletcher, in 1887, incepted studies on insects injurious to Canadian crops and in that year he became the first Dominion entomologist. Prior to this time he had acted for a few years in an honorary capacity. On Fletcher's death Dr. Gordon Hewitt, of the University of Manchester, succeeded to the post thus vacated: he held office from 1909 until 1920. In the last-named year the death of Hewitt led to the appointment of Mr. (now Dr.) Arthur Gibson as the Dominion entomologist.
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The Canadian Entomological Service. Nature 146, 90–91 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146090d0
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