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joined by Doctor Komarek and Doctor Rambousek, and together we 

 visited many places of interest, meeting Doctor Obenberger and his 

 assistants at the Museum in Prague. Among them, I was very glad 

 to make the acquaintance of Ogloblin whose work with some of the 

 parasitic Hymenoptera had attracted my attention. We also met 

 Stranek and Blattny at the Phytopathological Station in Prague. One 

 of the most interesting experiences was a 200-kilometer trip across 

 Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, east to Troppau, for the purpose of 

 examining the forests which had been dusted by means of army 

 airplanes'early in the season under Komarek's supervision. The obser- 

 vations were made largely on the estate of Prince Lichnowski. A 

 practically continuous red spruce forest 70 years old, in a hilly 

 country, was owned partly by the Government, partly by Prince 

 Lichnowski, and partly by the city of Troppau. The town would 

 not contribute any financial aid, and its trees were not dusted. The 

 result was that in August, at the time of our visit, the dusted area 

 showed new growth at the tops of the defoliated trees, while on the 

 areas owned by the city the attempts of the trees to recuperate were 

 at once ruined by caterpillars that had not been killed by airplane 

 operations. Some trees had died on the treated areas and had been 

 felled and cut and piled for the paper mills, but the city forest over 

 large areas was obviously past help. Even those that were disposed 

 of brought but a small fraction of their potential value. 



Later (in September) I met Komarek, Rambousek, and Soudek at 

 the International Congress of Zoology in Budapest, where Komarek 

 gave a public address on the forest work just described, and in 1928 

 Rambousek came to the United States for a brief visit at the time of 

 the International Congress of Entomology at Ithaca, New York, in 

 August of that year. 



It seems to me that much may be expected from Czechoslovakia. 

 Its present Government is at the same time conservative and enter- 

 prising. Its Academy of Agriculture is a vigorous institution, and 

 the building it has erected in the city of Prague is a model of its kind. 

 All of the latest ideas in regard to interior architecture have been 

 adopted, and many novel features, especially in the way of lighting, 

 have been introduced. I appreciate very highly my election, in 1926, 

 to honorary membership in this distinguished Academy. 



Doctor Soudek's book, entitled (translated) " Practical Entomology 

 in the Lhiited States of America," was jniblished early in 1930 by the 

 Czechoslovak Academy of Agriculture. It is a royal octavo book of 



