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corps of reporters was organized, who sent in regular reports on the 

 occurrence of destructive insects in their respective regions. The 

 reporters were farmers and forestry agents, and they served gra- 

 tuitously. In case of serious damage one of the employees of the 

 station was sent into the field for study and experiment. A general 

 report was published every year in the comprehensive Annual Report 

 of the Ministry of Agriculture addressed to the Chamber of Deputies. 

 Special reports were also published, which were gratuitously distrib- 

 uted to the public. Horvath remained in charge of the station until 

 1896, when he went back to the National Museum where he served 

 as Director of the Zoological Department until his retirement ; con- 

 tinuing, however, entomological work of great value but relating 

 chiefly to the insects of the order Hemiptera. He is still living and 

 active though long past his 80th year ; and in 1927 was the President 

 of the Tenth International Zoological Congress. This indicates his 

 high rank among zoologists in general, including of course the 

 workers in entomology. 



In 1890 Josef Jablonowski was taken on by Horvath as a temporary 

 assistant in the Entomological Station, where Karl Sajo had already 

 been working with Horvath for two years. During the next two 

 years they investigated the Moroccan locusi (which they fought 

 largely by the Cyprian barrier method), the nun moth, the Hessian 

 fly, the frit-fly, the grain saw-fly, the grain aphis, clover weevils, 

 and the sugar-beet beetle. 



Sajo resigned in 1894. and in 1896 Horvath was transferred to the 

 National Museum, Jablonowski remaining as acting director with 

 one assistant. A little later, he was sent to western Europe for study. 

 On this journey he visited Italy, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, 

 and Switzerland. While on this journey he received his appointment 

 as chief of the station, and retained the position until the present 

 year (1928) when he was retired for age. 



During the years of his incumbency of the office, Jablonowski not 

 only did admirable work but grew rapidly in the eyes of the scientific 

 men of the world and was an important factor in the rather remark- 

 able change that has occurred in Europe as well as elsewhere in the 

 esteem in which economic workers in entomology were and are held. 

 I well remember that when, on my first visit to the Hungarian 

 National Museum in 1902, I asked Mocsary and Kertesz where I 

 could find Jablonowski, the reply was " Why do you wish to see 

 Jablonowski ? He is not a scientific man ; he is an agricultural ento- 

 mologist — a kind of farmer." What a change since then ! Not only 

 is the economic entomologist today recognized among the men of 



