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iMuseuni. where the D 'Albert! collections made in New Guinea are 



deposited. I also went to the Botanical section of the University of 



Genoa, where they have a very fine herbarium and collection of living 

 plants. 



From here I went to Vienna via Milan, where I had to change trains, 

 and left the latter town at midnight ; and passing through Northern Italy, 

 reached Vienna the following night. Next morning I went to the 

 Museum, and met the Director, Dr. Gangbbaur, who introduced me to the 

 staft and fjlaced the collections at my disposal. This Museum contains 

 some very valuable collections, and is particularly rich in economic ones, 

 such as Signoret's collections of Coccida (Scale Insects) and the combined 

 collections of Dipt era made bv Schine: , Weidmann, Meigen, and Lowe. 

 T spent a considerable time over these collections and made many notes 

 on Signoret's types of Australian scale insects, and a number of notes 

 on the named fruit flies in the Diftera. 



I then visited the laboratories of the Experimental Station of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, where I was shown over the buildings, and met 

 Drs. Wahl and Fulmer, who have charge of the economic entomology 

 and vegetable diseases of plants, and have made collections of all the pests 

 found in Austria. Among them, leaf -devouring caterpillars after the 

 class of the web moths seem to be the worst, while several weevils of the 

 genus Cleonus do a great deal of damage to sugar beet. After another 

 morning in the Museum, spent the afternoon at the Chemical Laboratories, 

 and the Veterinary, Viticultural and Peat Branches ; the latter deals with the 

 utilization of the large deposits of peat which is largely used for fuel in 

 manufacturing spirits. The Fisheries Branch was closed, as they had a 

 show on at the Agricultural Show Grounds. The following morning left 

 for the Show Grounds at St. Marx at 7.30, and reached there a little after 

 8, before the crowd. The fish exhibit consisted of about 300 glass-fronted 

 tanks placed round the walls full of living fresh-water fish (for which 

 Austria is noted), some of the fish being so large that there did not s^em 

 to be room for them to swim. There must have been quite 10,000 living 

 fish exhibited, besides quantities of tlie small fry showing their develop- 

 ment. 1 was invited to a conference of the Fisheries Experts by one of 

 tne Commissioners to whom I went for information, but had to leave 

 before it took place. The next and most remarkable exhibition to an 

 Australian was the collection of, and the interest shown in rabbits. I 

 counted 600 cages, most of them containing three or four animals and 

 comprising all the breeds and varieties known, Belgian, Russian, Japanese, 

 &c., many of them grown to a great size — larger than hares. The judges 

 weighed each animal on the scales, measured it even down to the length 

 and shape of its ears, and I wondered what an Australian squatter would 

 have thought of this section in our Royal Agricultural Show. The other 

 sections consisted of pigs, of which Vhere were a great number, chiefly 

 white Yorkshire; and cattle, mostly Swiss. Besides these there were 

 manures and agricultural implements, principally of English manufac- 

 ture. From here we went on to the Natural History Museum, and went 

 through the general collections on the three main floors with the Director, 

 who explained the plan of arrangement. We then returned to the oflfices 

 and went through injurious" Lepido-ptcra with Profesor Rebel, who, besides 

 being in charge of tlTis Department in the Museum, lectures to the students 

 at the Agricultural Department. 



Next afternoon I left for Budapest, arriving there the same night. 

 On the following morning 1 met Dr. Howarth, Director of the Royal 

 Museum of Hungary, and with Dr. Kirtez, one of the greatest authorities 



