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A. H, Rosenfeld, an entomologist from the United States, was 

 employed for a time by a sugar organization in the Argentine, and 

 wrote several papers. E. W. Rust, another North American ento- 

 mologist, was for a time in the Argentine, and also wrote several 

 papers of an economic bearing. 



I regret that I have never had the opportunity to visit Argentina. 

 Mr. G. F. Moznette, of the Federal Bureau, and Mr. Max Kisliuk, Jr., 

 working with the plant quarantine service of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, have both visited that country in recent 

 years and have told me of their cordial reception and of the excellent 

 character of the work being carried on. Both speak very pleasantly 

 of Prof. Fernando Lahille, Chief of the Zoological Laboratory of 

 the Ministry of Agriculture, who was also at that time President of 

 the Entomological Society of Buenos Aires. Both met Everard E. 

 Blanchard, connected with the Argentine service, who was a graduate 

 of the Maine State Agricultural College. 



BRAZIL 



While Brazil began to have an appreciatio;i of certain branches of 

 science at an early date, very little was done in entomology, and 

 especially in economic entomology, until comparatively recently. 

 Many naturalists visited Brazil in the last century, and enormous 

 collections of one kind or another were sent to the great museums of 

 Europe. Humboldt's writings were widely read and everywhere 

 appreciated. William Henry Edwards, an American entomologist, 

 visited the valley of the Amazon and published a charming book about 

 his observations as early as 1847, '^^''^ it is interesting to note that 

 Alfred Russell Wallace and H. W. Bates were so much interested by 

 this book that it was the principal incentive that started them on their 

 famous journeyings in the same region. 



Among the many collectors of natural history specimens who visited 

 Brazil in the ensuing years, Herbert H. Smith may be especially 

 mentioned. He originally visited the country on one of the early 

 expeditions of Charles Fred Hartt, the first Professor of Geology at 

 Cornell University, and the results of his collecting were incorporated 

 in the collections of the Department of Entomology at Coniell. Later 

 he visited Brazil many times. I believe that the Pittsburgh Museum 

 contains the bulk of his material. He was a wonderful collector and 

 cared for his specimens in a very perfect way. His work in this 

 direction ranks with that of the later work of Albert Koebele and 

 Carl F. Baker. 



