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began with the enemies of cocoa, coffee, rubber, cotton, and the coco- 

 nut pahn. The important collections of insects were classified by 

 Dr. H, C. Schouteden. 



In 1916 J. Ghesquiere was sent out as a second entomologist and 

 worked in the province of Katanga. In 1919 Mayne's health broke 

 down and he returned to Belgium where he assumed the directorship 

 of the state entomological station. The laboratory at Eala was then 

 placed in charge of Ghesquiere who transferred it to Stanleyville and 

 took up as his specialty questions relating to cotton. 



In 1 92 1 Seydel was made entomologist to the province of Katanga 

 and established an important laboratory at Elizabethville. Ghesquiere 

 left in 1924 and Seydel remained until 1929. In 1929 five entomolo- 

 gists were named for the Congo, one for each province, each one 

 reporting to the provincial station. The provinces are: Bas-Congo, 

 and Kasai, Province Orientale, Province Equatoriale, Katanga, 

 Ruanda-Urundi. At present there are three entomological officials, 

 viz., Seydel for Katanga, M. Bredo (1929) for the equatorial 

 province, and Jean Vrydagh (1930) for the oriental province. 



This note refers only to persons and stations. Professor Mayne 

 adds in his manuscript a number of interesting facts about the work 

 and also a complete bibliography. This should be published soon. 



SWEDEN 



Dr. N. A. Kemner, at present Director of the Entomological 

 Department of the University of Lund, has been kind enough to send 

 me a careful statement concerning applied entomology in Sweden, 

 and it is from this statement that the following paragraphs have been 

 prepared ; many of them are printed here practically in Doctor Kem- 

 ner's phraseology. 



Applied entomology is very old in Sweden. Doctor Kemner re- 

 minds me that Linnaeus himself was the first one to publish a com- 

 prehensive synopsis of this subject, in a paper entitled " Noxa 

 Insectorum " printed at Stockholm in 1752. This was probably the 

 first paper on applied entomology prepared by a thoroughly scien- 

 tific man. It gives a good summary of insect damage and mentions a 

 large number of the most injurious insect pests of the field, garden, 

 and household. In a recent paper entitled " Linne als Praktischer 

 Entomologe" (pp. 1-104, Stockholm, 1924), Felix Bryk gives the 

 results of his studies of Linnaeus as an applied entomologist, show- 

 ing that the great author published many good observations on 

 noxious insects. Bryk gives extracts. 



