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ently he did little original research, and his works for the most part 

 were compilations, but they were very useful compilations. In 187 1 

 he published a book entitled " Entomology for Gardeners and Garden 

 Friends," in 1874 one on " Forest Entomology," and in 1879-80 his 

 big work, the title of which we may translate as " Practical Ento- 

 mology." It appeared in five volumes, well printed and well illus- 

 trated with 326 well drawn and well engraved woodcuts. The whole 

 work included 1410 pages. L believe that there was no English trans- 

 lation of this valuable work. It is a pity, since such a translation 

 would have been very useful to the people in the British Isles, and, 

 since many of the insects considered have been carried by commerce 

 to many other parts of the world (as we shall show in our section on 

 Kollar's work), it would have helped very many people. As it was 

 very largely a compilation and not the result of original research, it 

 does not seem to have been considered especially by the German sci- 

 entific men, but nevertheless it was good and sound and full. 



Contrary to a frequent method of considering injurious insects by 

 crop classification, the matter is arranged according to the classifica- 

 tion of the insects, just as is done in Dr. H. T. Fernald's book on 

 "Applied Entomology." Looking through the pages, one finds every- 

 where data brought together in such a way that, had it been written in 

 English, it would be frequently quoted today in publications written 

 in that language. It considers not only German insects, but those 

 species which the author thought would be found in Germany in the 

 then near future. 



From the view-point of remedies, it is no stronger than any one of 

 the European books of that period or earlier, but a distinct effort 

 was made wherever it was possible to show, in the concluding para- 

 graph of the consideration of each species, after a side-heading 

 " Gegenmittel," such measures as might be adopted. There is little 

 doubt that had this great work been linguistically available to the 

 American workers of the eighties it would have been a very great 

 help to them, and in fact would be so today. 



On the death of Doctor Taschenberg, the great English journal 

 Nature had this to say about this work : 



In the absence of any satisfactorj^ general textbook on the subject published 

 in this country, this work is indispensable to any serious study of injurious 

 insects in Great Britain as well as in Germany. 



Doctor Taschenberg published but one more paper in the 18 years 

 following the publication of this magnum opus. This was one on 

 Hymenoptera, which appeared in 1891. 



