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to "bluff". The reducing process is still in operation, and the future is full of 

 uncertainty. 



The purely scientific entomologists — members of museums, professors, 

 specialists in Experiment Stations — have fared worse, since it was not easy to 

 prove to ignorant authorities the necessity of pure research without immediate 

 practical application. Accordingly the losses in pure entomology have been very 

 heavy. Some were oljliged to turn to economic work, where the pay was greater, 

 but in spite of the very hard conditions of life, many have kept bravel}- at their 

 posts. When it is realized that a university professor's salary is about L4. 

 a month, while the cost of living is higher than it is in London, it is remarkable 

 how these men were able to keep body and soul together, with miserable rations 

 of food, and to prosecute their scientific studies, often in unheated buildings 

 in winter without artificial light. An enormous number of unpublished manus- 

 cripts prepared b}' the museums and societies are ready for the printer, but no 

 money is available. 



The Russian scientific workers have shown a devotion akin to martyrdom; 

 they did not abandon science when conditions of life became scarcelv bearable, 

 but science served them as a refuge from the grim realities of life. 



MOST IMPORTANT RUSSIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS 

 I. Periodicals and serials. 



1. Horae Socielatis Entomological Rossicae 1958-1919. (Temporarily su-pended owing to 



the lack of funds). Vols. I-XLI. Pretograd. Published by the Russ. Ent. Soc. 



2. Revue Russe d'Entomologie 1901-1922. Vols. I-XVII. Petrograd. Published by the 



Russ. Ent. Soc. 



3. Messager Entomologique. Vols. 1-11,1913-1914. Kiev. Published by the Kiev Society of 



Friends of Nature. 



4. The Journal of Applied Entomology. Vols. l-II. 1917-181S. Kiev. Published by the Rus- 



sian Association of Apphed Entomologists. 



5. Entomological Messenger. Kiev. (Contained only reviews of current Russian literature on 



applied entomology). 



6. Memoirs of the Bureau of Entomology. Vols. I-XII. Petrograd. Published by the Bureau 



of Entomolog\' of the Ministry of Agriculture (now Section of Applied Entomology of 

 Agricultural Researh Committee). Contains a most valuable series of monographs of 

 very many important injurious insects; each monograph published as a separate part 

 and there are about 10 parts in each volume. 



7. Reportsof the Bureau of Applied Entomology. Vols. I-II. 1921-1922. Petrograd. Published 



by the same institution and intended to include smaller papers, all the larger ones being 

 published in the Memoirs. 



8. Numerous reports of the local entomological institutions, proceedings of entomological 



and entomo-phytopathological conferences, etc. 



II Handbooks and General Works. 



1. N. A. Cholodkovsky. A Course of Entomology, Theoretical and Applied. St. Petersburg, 



1912. 3rd edition. (An excellent general handbook.) 



2. N. M. Kulagin. Injurious Insects. Moscow. (Three editions. Published 1904-1923. Con- 



tains extensive information on Ru.ssian in.sect pests.) 



3. N. N. Bogdanov-Katkov. (Under his editorship, but by several authors). Practical Ento- 



mology. Petrograd. 1921-1923. (Published in parts by different authors; so far only 

 four parts are out). 



4. Koppen, Th. Injurious Insects. 3 vol,s. Petrograd. 1980. 1545 pp. 'An enormous amount 



of information on Russian economic insects; still very valuable though out of date; out 

 of print.) 



