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ernnient appreciates the value of work in economic entomology, and 

 that the investigations of Jablonowski's successors are being cordially 

 supported. 



For several years prior to 1928 the United States Bureau supported 

 a parasite laboratory in Budapest under the direction of C. F. W. 

 IMuesebeck, and this laboratory was conveniently located at a com- 

 paratively short distance from the headquarters of Government eco- 

 nomic entomology in old Pesth. The headquarters of the ecological 

 investigations of the Euro]>ean corn borer, under K. W. Babcock, 

 were also maintained for a time in Budapest. 



DENMARK 



Although Denmark since the time of Fabricius has given the world 

 a number of well known and even famous entomologists, and although 

 for centuries agriculture has been the chief industry of the country, 

 agricultural entomology is comparatively new there. It is not so old, 

 in fact, as in Sweden and in Germany. In spite of the fact that 

 forestry in Denmark is of much less importance than agriculture, 

 forest entomology appeared before agricultural entomology, and the 

 latter did not begin to develop until the last decade of the last century. 

 This rather anomalous fact was due to the early organization of 

 higher instruction in forestry in connection with the Universities of 

 Copenhagen and Kiel. 



The first Dane to study forest entomology was J. C. Schiodte, who 

 was appointed teacher of zoology at the College of Forestry in 1858 

 and in 1863 went to the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College 

 where he served as Docent in general zoology and forest zoology until 

 1883. His economic publications are few and not very important, 

 and he did not seem to be especially interested in questions of 

 control. 



He was succeeded in the latter position by Frederik Meinert, who 

 retired in 1885. In the meantime Schiodte had been appointed Cura- 

 tor of the Zoological Museum, where he was also succeeded by 

 Meinert. 



In the latter half of the last century there were severe attacks by 

 insects in the plantations of conifers in different parts of the country, 

 and in 1857 F. C Eide published a paper on these insects. Forest 

 insects were further studied by H. Borries, who made excellent stud- 

 ies, especially of the saw-flies ; and in i8<>S E. A. Lovendahl wrote an 

 admirable memoir on the Danish bark-beetles. 



Meinert was succeeded as Docent of Zoology in the \'eterinary 

 and Agricultural College in 1885 ^^y J- E. V. Boas, who retired re- 



