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great service to us during the early years of the investigation. Much 

 later he has welcomed to Budapest and has assisted with advice and 

 in other ways the experts of the United States Bureau of Entomology 

 who have been sent out there on different missions, especially, how- 

 ever, connected with th« study of the ecology of the corn plant and 

 the European corn borer and with the European parasites of the 

 gipsy moth. 



A short time before the war he translated into Hungarian from the 

 English my book entitled " The House Fly, Disease Carrier," and, 

 although it did not appear until 191 7 (we had gone over the subject 

 carefully together at Oxford, England, in 1912), it met with a 

 hearty reception. It appealed to the intelligent class of people and 

 became a popular reader for students in high schools and colleges. 

 Jablonowski wrote me in 1928 that there are still two or three copies 

 available for circulation in many of these schools but they are pretty 

 well worn out by constant use and frequent reference. 



During the summer of 1928, resting and recuperating in the so- 

 called Black Forest of Hungary, Jablonowski wrote me a long and 

 charming account of his life, which I hope will be published some 

 day. His health had remained almost perfect down to 1927, and then 

 he had all sorts of trouble which he epitomized as follows : 



After 37 years of service, I became seriously sick. My diabetes became worse 

 and worse, and a serious ear trouble landed me on the operating table. Arterio- 

 sclerosis threatened to become very serious, and I nearly lost my voice on 

 account of a severe throat trouble. What else does a man need to make his 

 life miserable? I had reached my 65th year of age without any serious sickness ; 

 but in my 66th year not less than 19 physicians tried their skill on my body. 

 Thanks to the Lord and to the physicians, I am still alive and able, as you see, 

 to write this long letter to my dear old friend. 



This account of Hungarian economic entomology is so far a one- 

 man affair, but this is proper, since economic entomology in Hungary 

 for many years has meant Jablonowski almost solely. But of late 

 years excellent work has been done by two younger yet still mature 

 men, namely G. Kadocsa and G. Bako. I imagine that Kadocsa must 

 have succeeded Jablonowski when the latter retired in 1928. The 

 offices and laboratories where the economic work is being done are in 

 the old city of Pesth at a very considerable distance from the national 

 collections in the Hungarian Museum on the other side of the river, in 

 Buda. This is unfortunate, but the laboratories are well equipped, 

 and at the time of my last visit contained large collections of injuri- 

 ous species. There can be no doubt that the present Hungarian Gov- 



