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lection is ]><)<T. Professor Kojevnikoff, who was in this country 

 at the Zoological Congress, is in charge, and has an assistant 

 preparator. Nothing of Motschulsky's is there. The prin- 

 cipol feature of the insect collection is a very large unnamed 

 collection from Turkestan. Professor Kojevnikoff kindly 

 offered to send the Parasitica to Washington for study and 

 naming, but 1 hastened to assure him that we had our hamK 

 full for some years to come in this direction. 



I )riving out from Moscow to Petrovsky, about nine or ten 

 miles awav, I found an admirable agricultural college with a 

 very fine man in charge of zoology, in the person of Professor 

 X. Kulagin. Kulagin is a man of perhaps fifty, compact form, 

 brown hair, close-cut beard, enthusiastic, and an admirable 

 \vorker. The school is a large one, having nearly a thousand 

 pupils. Kulagin has a very .good exhibit collection showing 

 the life histories of the principal insect pests of Russia. He 

 gave me some specimens and many papers. He is the editor 

 of the Russian Bee Journal, and is a trained morphologist and 

 embryologist. I took luncheon at riis house with his family 

 and friends. He has a charming wife and two boys, one 

 thirteen and one ten. In his collections he has in one carton 

 a series of Scolytids and Bostrichids named by Motschulsky. 



At Warsaw, where I spent part of the day Sunday. 

 May 30, T visited the University of Warsaw to see Professor 

 Mitrozhunof and Professor Stschelkenovtzev, but found them 

 both absent one in St. Petersburg and the other gone on a 

 collecting expedition with some students. The servant of 

 Mitrozhunof, whose name was Gregory Subotin.was very agree- 

 able and communicative, and I took a photograph of himself 

 and his family and one of the old university buildings now used 

 for offices. The entomological museum of the university is not 

 good. The specimens are rather poor and badly preserved. 

 There is no light, and the collection is housed in a building not 

 intended for a museum. There were some good exhibit pieces 

 of life history in alcohol, several cabinets of cartons of insects, 

 but those of which T could see the labels were entirely 

 ( 'oleoptera. The general case exhibit of insects showed the 

 specimens badly mounted, and faded in spite of the bad light. 



Mr. Schwarz commented on the work of Motsehulsky and 

 liis methods of publication and the briefness of many of his 

 descriptions, especially in the hides Entomologique. 



Mr. Uhler remarked that the description of I lemiptrra were 

 very good. 



