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States, and consequently the necessities for successful work in eco- 

 nomic entomology will, with the extension of agriculture into regions 

 now largely pastoral or entirely disused, become quite as great as in 

 this country. There is, then, every reason why the results achieved 

 in that country should be known to the people of this and other parts 

 of the world. The language obstacle must in some way be overcome. 



An admirable example is the case of the big 943-page work entitled 

 " Guide to Insects " prepared under the supervision of I. N. Filipjev, 

 published the present year (1928), which lies before me. It is obvi- 

 ously a very comprehensive work, illustrated by good line figures, and 

 apparently covers the field of Russian insects, especially so far as the 

 injurious forms are concerned. It includes, in those groups con- 

 taining many noxious forms, full tables of families, and then full 

 tables of genera under the different families, and again synoptic 

 tables of the principal Russian species under each genus. It appears 

 to be a very useful and instructive work, but I can read none of it 

 except the Latin names. There must be hidden from me by the lan- 

 guage many things I wish to know and ought to know. 



At the International Congress just mentioned A. P. Adrianov read 

 an important jKiper entitled " Present Status of Methods and Policy 

 of Controlling Insects Injurious to Agriculture and Forestry in the 

 United Socialist Soviet Republics." This paper was presented in Eng- 

 lish, and will doubtless be published in the Proceedings of the Con- 

 gress. Mr. Adrianov touches very slightly upon the history of applied 

 entomology in Russia dating the former Central Experiment Station 

 from 1894 and the first local institution (that at Kiev) from 1904. In 

 the next 12-year period 22 entomological institutions were estabUshed, 

 but these 23 local laboratories covered the territory of the then 

 Russian Empire very unevenly. There were no such institutions in the 

 Far East, in Siberia, in the Ural region, the Kirghiz region, the Volga 

 region (except Astrakhan), nor in any of the northern regions of 

 European Russia. Since the war, however, there has been a rapid 

 growth of entomological institutions, and additional ones in all of the 

 regions of the Republic have been established. Mr. Adrianov describes 

 the stations and organization in the dilYerent Republics of the Union, 

 and shows that the entomological staff in the various institutions 

 varies from five to twelve (in the majority of the local institutions 

 the average being from five to six) . 



After the war much damage was done in different parts of the 

 Union by migratory locusts, and these insects have been fought by 

 the poisoned bait method and by the airplane method. Grain insects, 



