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moment, but replied, "How can I — But then, I have a good rifle 

 along with me ! " 



Doctor Tragardh, as previously mentioned, I met first at the Inter- 

 national Conference of Economic Entomologists and Plant Patholo- 

 gists at Wageningen in 1923, again at Zurich in 1925, and still later 

 in the United States in 1928. 



These are the only Swedish entomologists I have had the pleasure 

 of knowing personally, but I have followed the work over there with 

 the greatest interest, and had an especial admiration for Dr. Chris- 

 topher Aurivillius who by correspondence helped me in several 

 emergencies, among other things giving me information enabling the 

 settling of the priority question concerning certain economically im- 

 portant genera of parasites established under different names by 

 ThcMHson and G. Mayr. 



NORWAY 



Prof. W. M. Schoyen (1844-1918), having graduated at the Agri- 

 cultural College in Aas, became greatly interested in agricultural ento- 

 mology, abandoned his early intention to study medicine, and took 

 a position in the Zoological Museum in Christiania, where he worked 

 for 10 years. He became favorably known as a scientific worker 

 through his papers on Norwegian Lepidoptera, Hemiptera, Orthop- 

 tera, and Diptera, and he also published an occasional paper upon 

 injurious insects. In 1891 he was aj^pointed l)y the Government 

 " Landbrugs-entomolog " and parliament voted him an annual salary 

 of 1,000 kroner ($270). He corresix)nded with farmers and horti- 

 culturists, and in 1891 published an annual report, and in the next 

 year issued another one. In 1893 his salary was raised to 1.200 

 kroner, and in 1894 he was apjxjinted (jovernment Entomologist 

 and was given a salary of 3,000 kroner with traveling expenses. He 

 was instructed to study insects and fungi in their relations to agricul- 

 ture and horticulture as well as to forests. Admirable reports were 

 published by Schoyen annually from 1891 and all bore the same 

 title, " Beretning om Skadeinsekter og Plantesygdomme." Beginning 

 with 1897, they contained competent illustrations and were obviously 

 very ])ractical and very useful. They were not lengthy, varying 

 between 25 and 50 printed pages. The last one under his authorship 

 was published in 191 2. In 19 13 he was succeeded by his son, T. H. 

 Schoyen. who continued the work in economic entomology and plant 

 pathology until 1920, when a State Mycologist was established and 

 Schoyen continued as State Entomologist. 



His reports continued to be issued annually until 1920, and since 

 that time have been issued every two years. 



