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The first annual meeting of the Russian Society of Workers in 

 AppHed Entomology was held in Kiev on the 3rd and 9th of 

 November, 1916. It was attended by representatives of the great 

 majority of Russian entomological organizations. The meeting de- 

 cided to advocate the organization of a central entomological bureau. 

 An interesting paper by I. V. Emelianov was read which discussed 

 the existing entomological organizations. He stated that there were 

 220 in the whole world, 74 being in Great Britain and its colonies, 

 68 in the United States, 51 in Russia, Germany having only 7, while 

 China, Turkey, Portugal, and Brazil had none. 



At present it appears that the Government of the Union of Socialist 

 Soviet Republics has brought about a good organization and that the 

 entomological side of their phytopathological service is being well 

 handled. The Bureau of Entomology of the Scientific Committee of 

 Agriculture, founded in 1894 and carried on under the directorship 

 of Porchinsky, continued under his leadership until 1916, when he 

 died. He was succeeded by Pospelov, who was followed by N. N. 

 Sokolov for 1917-1918. Pospelov again became chief in 1919 and still 

 holds that office. The organization is now a Division for Applied 

 Entomology of the State Institution for Experimental Agriculture. 

 Its work is subdivided, with Pospelov in charge of the biological 

 section, I. N. Filipjev in charge of the zoogeographic and ecological 

 section, N. F. Meyer in charge of the section of biological control, and 

 A. I. Dobrodejev in charge of the section of forest insects. Then 

 there is an experiment station at Detskoje Selo near Leningrad in 

 charge of N. N. Troitsky, and also a section of taxonomy in charge 

 of J. I. Baeckmann. 



There are also other organizations and a number of excellent 

 workers on different aspects of the entomological complex, includ- 

 ing such well known men as Rimsky-Korsakov, Bogdanov-Katjkov, 

 Mordvilko, Stackelberg, and Boldyrev. These later facts have been 

 gathered from a paper published by Rimsky-Korsakov and W. Gross- 

 mann in the Entomologischen Anzeiger, Volume 4, No. 9, October, 

 1924. 



My impression is that Russian work in applied entomology is very 

 apt to be sound, as indeed it is in most branches of science. That 

 nation has produced great men in various lines of scientific work. 

 The agricultural conditions over a vast range of Russian territory are 

 more like those that exist in certain parts of the United States than 

 they are like those of other European countries. Therefore it seems 

 a pity that American workers as well as those in the larger British 

 dominions are prevented by language from at once appreciating the 



