THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



the Academy in French (a translation having been made by 

 Dr. Marchal). Sagnier refused on the ground that the word 

 "InternationaUsm" was altogether too suggestive of "Moscoviet- 

 ism." Whereupon Marchal took it to the editor of Le Revue 

 Scientifique, where it was published in full with a somewhat 

 modified title.^ 



In 1925, I went to Europe with the purpose of attending three 

 international gatherings, although I suppose the first could hardly 

 be called international. It was the triennial meeting of the 

 Imperial Bureau of Entomology of Great Britain, but it seemed 

 almost international, since it brought together the official eco- 

 nomic entomologists of the different British dominions and 

 colonies. As a matter of fact, I believe I was the only foreigner 

 invited. After the London Conference I was to have gone to 

 the International Congress of Agriculture at Warsaw, and later 

 to the Third International Congress of Entomology at Ziirich. 

 But I had a bad accident on shipboard, which resulted in 

 compressed fractures of two vertebrae, and I was held in a 

 Nursing Home in Glasgow so long that I missed the meetings 

 at London and at Warsaw. But the Glasgow stay was delightful. 

 Dr. R. Scott Frew and Dr. Archibald Young, who attended 

 me, were kindness and skill personified. Miss Cameron, the 

 head of the Nursing Home, was a charming Scotch lady, the 

 nominal head of the Clan Cameron, I was told. I fell quite in 

 love with five of my Scotch nurses. Since then I have never 

 allowed anyone in my presence to slur Scotland, and I even 

 listen with distaste to stories of Scotch frugality. 

 After a good rest, I was able to travel again. I went to 



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"L'Evolution des Rapports Internationaux," Revue Scientifique, Vol. 62, No. 

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