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gists. Professor A. Berlese is director of the Royal Station 

 for Agricultural Entomology, with Professor del Guercio, and 

 Drs. Ribaga and Paoli. They are greatly interested in the 

 work of checking the ravages of the olive-fiy ; and, while Dr. 

 Silvestri considers that parasites could be introduced to con- 

 trol this pest, and he recently visited the United States and 

 Hawaii to study their parasites, Prof. Berlese thinks that 

 such mechanical methods as poisoning the flies, and destroy- 

 ing all waste, will end the trouble. I missed Berlese in Flor- 

 ence, but made a special visit to Genoa, where he was making 

 some experiments. 



Hungary is well up to date in economic work. Dr. Geza 

 Horvath was originally in charge of the Royal Entomological 

 Station at Budapest ; but, at the time of my visit, he was 

 Director of the Royal Museum of Natural History, and Pro- 

 fessor Josef Jablonowski was in charge, and might be styled 

 the Government Entomologist of Hungary- The Viticul- 

 tural Station is on the outskirts of Pestli ; but they have fine 

 laboratories, and collections of entomological specimens. One 

 of the drawbacks to the value of this station, from our point 

 of view, is that most of its reports are issued in the Hun- 

 garian language. 



Forestry and forest-pests are important in Hungary, as 

 they are in Germany, and, in the latter country, most of the 

 economic work is done in connection with the destruction of 

 timber-destroying insects. 



In Russia, all branches of economic work are studied : and 

 there are a number of active workers scattered over this 

 great empire. Professor Portschinsky has charge of most of 

 the stations under the Department of Agriculture. Scientific 

 methods of pruning and spraying are carried out in their 

 orchards, and several of the professors are members of the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists. 



In Finland, my valued correspondent. Professor Enzio 

 Reuter, has a well equipped entomological branch at the Uni- 

 versity of Plelsingfors, while right from the other side of 



