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results reached by the Russian investigators. So long as Uvarov is 

 doing his admirable abstracting work for the Imperial Bureau in 

 London, this does not matter so much, but he will have to be replaced 

 some day'. There is no doubt that the large and well illustrated bul- 

 letins of the permanent Entomo-phytopathologic Congress of Russia 

 contain a great deal of up-to-date information. Six of these large 

 bulletins were published in 1926 and six in 1927. Evidently much 

 advanced work is being reported in these publications, judging by the 

 illustrations. It is a pity that summaries in English, French, or 

 Gennan are not printed at the end of each number. I can imagine the 

 mental attitude of the authorities on this matter must be, " We have 

 to learn their languages to understand their reports — they should 

 do the same with ours." 



This language difficulty is really a serious one, and there must 

 surely be some way in which the results gained in Russia can be made 

 intelligible to the other countries. After Uvarov's availability for 

 this valuable work is lost, possibly the Imperial Bureau will be able 

 to supply his place. At this time of writing, intelligent scientific 

 Russians are to be found all over the world, and it is not so difficult 

 as it once was to find a translator. 



The Fourth International Congress of Entomology held at Ithaca. 

 New York, in August, 1928, brought from Russia a very strong dele- 

 gation. While there were few of them who had much English, nearly 

 all of them spoke either French or German, so it was possible for 

 the American entomologists to talk with them and to learn something 

 of their work and aims. I saw especially Paul I. Adrianov of the 

 Department of Agriculture at Moscow, I. A. Parfentiev of the Uni- 

 versity of Moscow, N. F. Rimsky-Korsakov of the University of 

 Leningrad, N. N. Bogdanov-Katjkov of the Institute for Applied 

 Zoology and Phytopathology in Leningrad, I. N. Filipjev of the Insti- 

 tute of Experimental Agronomy, Bureau of Applied Entomology, 

 Leningrad, A. B. Martynov of the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, 

 and V. V. Nikolsky who had previously spent a year in the United 

 States as a Fellow of the International Education Board and who is 

 going to do work in economic entomology in Turkestan. A number of 

 these delegates visited Washington, and Parfentiev and Nikolsky 

 stayed on for some weeks doing bibliographical work in the library of 

 the Bureau of Entomology. The men were all capable and very much 

 in earnest. There seems no doubt that a great amount of sound work 

 is coming from Russia and that many ideas of a practical nature will 

 be evolved there. There is an extent of territory and a variety of cli- 

 mates involved quite comparable to those features of the United 



