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Professor Cooley has given me the following notes: 

 ''The specimens I sent you were collected on a large Picea engJemanni 

 on the main street of the little town of Corvallis in the Bitter Root 

 Valley, Ravalli County, Montana. The species Picea is of such wide 

 distribution that this individual tree may have been introduced from 

 a considerable distance or may have been taken from forests near by. 

 I have attempted to trace the history of this particular tree and have 

 failed. The probabilities are that it originated locally and that this 

 Pseudokermes is native. The insects were not abundant on the tree." 



A NOTE ON SIGISMOND MOKSHETSKY AND HIS 

 WORK IN THE CRIMEA 



By L. O. Howard 



In my address on the recent progress and present conditions of 

 economic entomology, published in the Proceedings of the Seventh 

 International Zoological Congress and also in Science, New Series, 

 Volume XXV, pages 769-791, December 6, 1907, I referred to Mok- 

 shetsky in the following words: 



"Professor Mokshetsky is the Director of the Museum of Natural 

 History in Simferopol, an institution which he has built up by his 

 own labors. He has conducted many investigations in economic en- 

 tomology, and has published a number of papers of value. Entirely 

 through his influence, the Crimea, a most fertile country in which 

 great attention is devoted to fruit growing, was perhaps the earliest 

 locality in Europe in which American ideas in economic entomology 

 were introduced. It was most interesting to walk, as I did on several 

 occasions, through enormous orchards and see everywhere American 

 spraying machinery and see the crops in as good condition as they could 

 possibly be found in the most up-to-date region in the United States. " 



There was published nearly a year ago in Simferopol an account 

 of the twenty years juhilaum of Mokshetsky, written by Theodore 

 Stcherbakof, from which it appears that in 1912 twenty years of 

 scientific work by this excellent economic entomologist were com- 

 pleted. 



Mokshetsky ^ was born May 2, 1865, and was educated in Vilna, 

 later entering the Forest Institute where he attended the entomolog- 

 ical lectures of Cholodkowski. He went into steppe forestry work, 

 and afterwards became assistant forester in the management of the 

 government property at Charkow. From 1890 to 1892 he devoted 



iThe name is variously spelled in English, for example as Mocrzecki; but the 

 spelling here used was personally given to the writer by Mokshetsky himself in 1907 

 as best giving the sound of his spoken name. 



