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for a number of years was in charge of the State Entomological 

 Station. Associated with him are some six other zoologists, 

 three of whom are working in the entomological section. The 

 entomological collections, while not yet very extensive, and much 

 cramped for space, are very creditable. Much zeal is also mani 

 fested in the collection of exotic insects, and at the present time 

 the museum has a collector in New Guinea who is sending in a 

 vast amount of material, most of which is undescribed, and rep 

 resents the minuter forms of insect life. A good deal of careful 

 scientific work is being done here, and, fortunately for the rest 

 of the world, published, for the most part, in Latin. Mr. Alex. 

 Mocsary, Custodian of Hymenoptera, who is remembered very 

 pleasantly, has been especially active in the preparation of papers 

 and monographs, notably a monograph of the Chrysididse of the 

 world. 



Leaving Budapest, the writer passed, without stop, through 

 the rather flat agricultural territory of Hungary, over the Hun 

 garian National Railway, to Fiume, and thence to Trieste. 

 The topographical features and the agricultural conditions of this 

 part of Hungary present little that is distinctive, and strongly re 

 mind one of the similar districts in the States of the Mississippi 

 Valley. 



Fiume and Trieste are surrounded with broken, mountainous 

 country, not differing particularly from northern Italy. The 

 Italian race predominates, and the cultures are those of Italy. 



More time was spent in Italy than in any other country, and 

 the conditions, from an agricultural and fruit-growing standpoint, 

 as bearing on the subject of affecting insects, were here more 

 carefully studied than elsewhere. The same remarkable freedom 

 from insect enemies noted elsewhere was found throughout Italy. 

 In northern Italy, under the protection of the barrier Alps, and 

 particularly in the region of the Italian lakes, olive and lemon 

 culture is much in evidence. The latter is carried on most ex 

 tensively, perhaps, on the sheer sides of the mountains rising 

 from Lake Garda, under conditions which amount to house cul 

 ture ; in other words, winter protection of the trees is necessary 

 for their safety. No more picturesque sight is to be seen any 

 where in Europe than these steep mountain sides lined over large 

 areas with curious lemon houses, open in summer and closed in 



