XXXJi, '21] ENTOMOLOGICAL NK\VS 199 



An Appeal from Russian Fellow-Entomologists 



and a List of Russian Entomologists 



Recently Deceased. 



Before the Great War one of the most flourishing and prom- 

 ising entomological societies in the world was established in 

 Russia, numbering among its members great names in the en- 

 tomological world, such as Adelung, Alferaki, Bianki, Oshanin, 

 Nicolas Mikailovitch Romanoff and C'holodkovsky. Little 

 reached our ears during the war about these colleagues, cut off 

 from us by circumstances, and today we are no better informed 

 of their work or well-being. Through the efforts of B. Uvarov, 

 now connected with the Imperial Bureau of Entomology 

 in London, we are able to give some information concerning 

 certain of our Russian friends, sad though it is, consisting of 

 the dates of death of nineteen of them. At the end of this 

 appeal we are giving a copy of this list of names and dates, our 

 last sad tribute to some of the leading men of our science. In 

 a forthcoming number of the NEWS we will give biographical 

 notices of the life and work of several of the deceased. 



In spite of the fact that Russian entomology has lost about 

 fifty of its devotees, including some of its really great, those still 

 with us are striving to continue their studies as well as condi- 

 tions will permit. Their main handicap is the lack of literature, 

 as virtually everything published since 1915 never reached Rus- 

 sia. With exchange in its present state the purchase of publi- 

 cations is impossible for them, and they appeal to all American 

 entomological societies to send sets of journals and single papers 

 published since 1915, also authors to send separates of their 

 papers which have appeared since the same date. 



All books, journals, etc., may be sent to Mr. G. Jacobson, 

 Secretary of the Russian Entomological Society, Zoological 

 Museum of the Academy of Sciences, Petrograd, Russia. 

 Through the Russian Society distributions can be made as Ear 

 as possible to the sludc-nts in Petrograd and adjacent Russia. 

 Kuznetsov, Mordwilko and A. Semenov-Tian-Shanski are at 

 present on the staff of the Zoological Museum, and they earn- 

 estly ask for the sending of literature. 



