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himself to entomology in the Zoological Laboratory of Charkow Uni- 

 versity. He went to the Crimea in the spring of 1893. At this time 

 insects were causing great damage, and he was freed from his admin- 

 istrative duties and began to take up direct work in economic ento- 

 mology. He began immediately the study of Eurygaster maura Fabr., 

 which had destroyed twenty-three thousand acres of winter wheat. 

 He worked in the field, studying the insect, and the result of his work 

 was the publication of a report upon this species which is said to have 

 been the first work in Russia by an entomologist who was actually 

 stationed for an extended space of time in the field. He pointed out 

 the necessity of establishing a local entomological laboratory, but 

 since there was no action upon this suggestion by the local or other 

 authorities he conducted a laboratory in his own private house. Three 

 years later the board of the local government gave him two rooms for 

 his insectary and two hundred rubles (about one hundred dollars) a 

 year. This was the beginning of the Zemsky Museum of Natural 

 History. He soon filled his rooms with entomological collections and 

 specimens of the fauna and flora of the Crimea, and, constantly urging 

 the necessity for establishing a competent museum of natural history, 

 he was finally able to make a formal opening in 1899. Since that time 

 he has worked with constantly increasing efficiency and with slowly in- 

 creasing support. He organized the Crimean Naturalists' Society and 

 Society of Nature Lovers. He was a pioneer in the starting of en- 

 tomological stations in Russia, and has given courses of lectures on 

 entomology to land proprietors, instructors and agronomists. In 

 recent years he has often gone to the Caucasus where he has helped 

 to organize and conduct courses in entomology for the public school 

 teachers, and has given instruction to practical entomologists, many 

 of whom are now working in many parts of Russia. He is now the 

 chief specialist in practical entomology in the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. He was the first to introduce into Russia modern American 

 spraying machinery and to adopt the up-to-date methods of American 

 economic entomologists. 



Not content with the great work which he has already done, he is 

 now engaged in organizing an experiment station in pomology near 

 Simferopol, which will include branches in entomology, mycology, 

 chemistry and meteorology. 



It is astonishing what this energetic fellow-member of our Associa- 

 tion of Economic Entomologists has accomplished, beginning single- 

 handed, and by the strength of his own force accomplishing success 

 which attracted the attention and support of the local and Imperial 

 governments. American entomologists I am sure will congratulate 

 him and wish him at least another twenty years of successful work. 



