FIGHTING THE INSECTS 



anxious about me, and that perhaps I did not know they were 

 living in troublous times. I never saw the suspect, but I learned 

 later that the week before my arrival a bomb had been thrown 

 by some anarchist into the Police Station. 



The next day or so, while we were waiting for the Black Sea 

 boat for Constantinople, we spent in Sebastopol and the sur- 

 rounding country. There was an interesting Marine Biological 

 Station, not so elaborate as the one at Naples, nor so extensive 

 as that at Roscoff, but well equipped and in the charge of a 

 very intelligent zoologist. I was especially impressed by the 

 library of periodicals, which seemed to contain about everything 

 worth while. It may be interesting to state that a few years after 

 my visit Dr. Paul Galtsoff became the director of this station. 

 He later escaped when the Red Army overwhelmed the Crimea 

 and is now holding an important position in the Bureau of 

 Fisheries at Washington. 



While I was seated at luncheon on one of these days (Pichler 

 was still in bed with his carbuncle) a card was brought to my 

 table, and I asked the waiter to show my visitor in. A large, 

 handsome, bearded gentleman entered with a large volume in 

 his hands and introduced himself in fairly good English as Mr. 

 Constantinoff. He explained that he was the Manager of the 

 Black Sea Line of steamers, and that he had come on behalf of 

 the Mayor of the city, Mr. Maximoflf, who was detained by 

 official duties, but who greatly desired to have me see his country 

 place and his large vineyards. Mr. Constantinoff had been selected 

 by him as the only man of his acquaintance who knew English 

 (the large volume was a dictionary of Russian-English and was 

 intended to facilitate conversation). I accepted the invitation 

 and we drove out to a beautiful hilly estate beyond Balaklava, 

 where the manager of the estate was introduced, and where we 

 spent the rest of the afternoon in the vineyard or on the grounds 



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