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forage insects, and truck crop insects have received special attention, 

 and those of the vineyard have also been studied. 



Before the war most of the insecticides and the apparatus for dis- 

 tributing them were imported. At the present time the Republic fur- 

 nishes its own material as well as knapsack and hand sprayers. A 

 thorough research in the chemical warfare against insects is being 

 conducted. 



Government appropriations for the support of this work have been 

 increasing, and for the whole of plant protection during the present 

 year they reached the sum of $2,500,000. Forest protection so far 

 has been undertaken only spasmodically and on a small scale. 



Russia has always bred scientific men and women of very high 

 rank. Her entomologists have naturally been of the highest type. 

 Every entomologist knows Porchinsky, Cholodkovsky, Semenov 

 Tian-Shansky, Mordwilko, Kusnesoff, Nasunov, and Rimsky-Kor- 

 sakov. Their scientific publications have been of the highest char- 

 acter. Much is to be expected from their followers. 



Addenda. — Nearly a year after this account was written, Mokrzecki 

 published in the Anzeiger fiir Schadlingskunde an account of K. E. 

 Lindeman who died February i, 1929. I had supposed that Lindeman 

 was long since dead, since I had not heard from him for many years 

 and since the photograph he sent me in the 1890's was apparently 

 that of a man well past his 50th year. Mokrzecki's very interesting 

 and appreciative account of Lindeman's life and work indicates that 

 he deserves additional consideration in an account of Russian eco- 

 nomic entomology. Briefly, he was born in 1844. His father was a 

 physician, and he himself began the study of medicine. He graduated 

 at Dorpat and Ijecame a teacher in the Agricultural High School at 

 Molodetschno, later becoming professor in the well known Agricul- 

 tural College at Petrowski. He published an outstanding monograph 

 of the wood-boring beetles of Russia, and successively held several 

 other positions. His work in the field of applied entomology was of 

 great value, and it is stated that most of the important injurious 

 insects in Russia were either described by him or considered in some 

 one or another of his list of 200 publications. Mokrzecki states that 

 he was a shrewd observer, a prominent speaker, and a skilled orator. 

 In 1892 he opposed the movement to establish an Imperial Bureau 

 of Entomology and insisted upon the continuance of various insti- 

 tutions for plant protection in different parts of the Empire. He early 

 advocated the introduction of resistant vines against the Phylloxera, 

 as opposed to the radical control method that was at first generally 

 advocated. His correspondence with Washington in the late i88o's 



