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and his classwork is very heavy, averaging 18 hours every 

 week. Most of his entomological work, therefore, is accom 

 plished during his two months' summer vacation. His collection 

 and library, and much of the work now in hand, was inspected. 

 He is preparing, among other things, a popular work on ento 

 mology for school use, illustrated with handsome plates drawn 

 by himself in highly creditable style. On leaving him the writer 

 was much surprised and not a little confused to be saluted with a 

 most hearty kiss, a custom for which an American would hardly 

 be prepared. 



From Vienna to Budapest is only a few hours' trip, and is 

 through a region devoted to agriculture and the growth of vines, 

 the latter hugging the hillsides and rough country, and the former 

 covering the broad, almost illimitable valley of the Danube, which 

 is flat and uninteresting, and devoted chiefly to the growth of 

 cereals, here produced over such vast areas of rich bottoms that 

 it would see-m possible for this region to serve as a granary for 

 all of Europe. 



At Budapest there is a national museum of very creditable 

 standing, and in applied entomology Hungary duplicates more 

 nearly than any other European State, perhaps, the system of 

 government entomological investigation in vogue in the United 

 States, although necessarily on a much smaller scale. The agri 

 cultural conditions of Hungary are very similar to those of the 

 United States, and practically the same questions arise in the 

 matter of destructive insects. The account of this bureau given 

 by Doctor Howard fully brings out this condition of affairs. The 

 place of government entomologist or director of the Royal State 

 Entomological Station, formerly held by Doctor Geza Horvath, 

 is now filled by Mr. Josef Jablonowski, who has two assistants, 

 and carries on the work of the station in very meagre and poor 

 quarters in a rented building near the palace of the Department 

 of Agriculture. Two or three days were spent with Mr. Jablo 

 nowski in examining his methods of work and in running about 

 the cities which have been combined under the modern name of 

 Budapest. The work done in the Entomological Bureau is chiefly 

 of an office character and largely by correspondence, which is sys 

 tematized somewhat on the basis of the work carried on by our 

 Statistical Division of the Department of Agriculture. A large 



