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the Agricultural Institute of the University of Jassy, Entomology 

 was taught as a side line of natural history in the agricultural schools. 



Dr. R. Jeannel, of Paris, who lived in Rumania for a time and who 

 often visits that country, wrote me from Cluj on January 19, 1930, 

 and informed me that in 1928 an Institute of Agricultural Research 

 was founded in Rumania and that this Institute comprised numerous 

 sections. He further showed that there are five institutions, depen- 

 dent on the Ministry of Agriculture, in which there exist either 

 instruction in entomology or laboratories for research in applied 

 entomology. These institutions are the Superior School of Agricul- 

 ture at Bucharest, the Academy of Agriculture at Cluj, the National 

 School of Viticulture and Horticulture at Chisinau, the School of 

 Horticulture at Bucharest, and the Institute of Agronomical Research 

 of Rumania at Bucharest. In this latter institute there is a Section 

 of Entomology with a Director, an assistant and a preparator. The 

 Director of this important section is Dr. W. Knechtel, the author 

 of the paper just referred to, and the representative of Rumania at the 

 International Congress of Entomology at Ithaca, New York, in 

 August, 1928. 



Long before this organization, occasional papers had been published 

 by the Section of Science of the Rumanian Academy and elsewhere. 

 Prof. G. N. Fintescu of Jassy was the author of a number of these 

 papers. He published, for example, in 1914, a contribution to the 

 study of Hyponomeuta maUnella, and later showed that the Hemip- 

 teron Capsus mali Myer is an enemy of the larva of Hyponomeuta. 

 Still later he published on one of the rose sawflies. 



I am indebted to the very well known zoologist. Prof. J. Borcea, 

 for a very competent report on the insects injurious to agriculture 

 in Rumania and the means employed to combat them. Professor 

 Borcea is not only Professor of Zoology in the University of Jassy 

 but is also Director of the Zoological Station at Constantza. In this 

 report, which should surely be published (I hope that it will be pub- 

 lished in Rumania) there is a careful consideration of the geographic 

 and faunistic conditions and an account of the ravages of different 

 important insects including grasshoppers. May beetles, wireworms, 

 and so on, together with some consideration of the insects that affect 

 different crops including a very interesting list of the enemies of 

 cereals, fruit trees, forests, and so on. Professor Borcea in his re- 

 search work is assisted by collaborators and by two assistants, Messrs. 

 M. Constantineanu and P. Suster. Both of these gentlemen and 

 Professor Borcea himself have published numerous important papers 

 and have paid rather especial attention to the matter of parasites and 



