14 PROTECTION OF PLANTS — 1924-25 



The study of insects in Russia has been carried on mainly by four sets of 

 agencies: the Entomological Societies, the Museums, the Bureau of Applied 

 Entomology, and Local Stations and Bureaus. 



1. The Societies: 



The Russian Entomological Society, Petrograd, founded in 1850, is the 

 oldest of the Societies. A short history of the period 1860-1910 was published 

 in: ' Horae Societatis Entom. Russicae", XXXIX, 1910; Annual reports for 

 1911 to 1915 are published in the "Revue Russe d'Entomologie" while the 

 report for the 3'ears 1916-1920 is to be found in the "Bulletin of the Second 

 Entomo phytopathological Conference in Petrograd" 



The Entomological Society of Moscow was founded in 1914, and three vo- 

 lumes of the Reports have been published in the: "Bull, de la Soc. Ent. de Mos- 

 cow". 



The Russian Association of Economic Entomologists was founded in 1913 

 at Kiev during the First All-Russian Entomological Conference. Two volumes 

 of the "Russian Journal of Applied Entomology" have been published. During 

 the war its work was largely suspended, but its activity was revived in 1922. at 

 Moscow. 



2. Museums: 



The Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrograd 

 is a very old (nearly 100 years) institution, with a large entomological depart- 

 ment, where enormous collections especially of Palaearctic insects are accumu- 

 lated. Reports on the work may be found in the yearly volumes of the "Annuaire 

 de Musee Zoologique de I'Academie des Sciences." 



The Zoologica Museum of the Moscow University. This museum is not 

 so important from an entomological point of view as the Petrograd Museum, 

 but a certain amount of systematic work is carried on there 



The Museum Caucasicum now called Musee de Georgie, in Tiflis, Trans- 

 caucasia, possesses very rich collections of the entomological fauna of Caucasus. 

 Persia and Armenia, and has published a series o' annual reports. 



Small provincial museums, with entomological departments, are in Kiev, 

 Ekaterinburg, Minussinsk, Tomsk, Tashkent, Stavropol, Simferopol, Kherson. 



3. The Bureau of Applied Entomology of the State Institute for Exper- 

 imental Agriculture, Petrograd, was founded in 1894. A short history of. 

 this Bureau was outlined in a paper by Bogdanov-Katkov (1923); while the 

 present organization and plans for the future are given in another paper by 

 Prof. Pospelov, present Chief of the Bureau. 



4. Local Stations and Bureaus. 



These are about fifty in number. A history and brief summary of organi, 

 zation and work up to 1915 is given by I. I. Mamontov. 



When one is informed that the complete list of Russian literature on Ec- 

 nomic Entomology occupies over 200 pages of small type, in two columns, in 

 a forthcoming pubhcation of the Review of Applied Entomology, one begins 

 to wonder if he is not playing the part of a new Rip van Winkle who has slept 

 while the world has progressed. Russia has been to. a large extent cut off so 



