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changed, and since 1890 it lins been called La Station Entomologique 

 de I'fitat, The establishment of the station was voted by the legisla- 

 tive chamber, and sanctioned by the King. It is subordinate to the 

 Ministry of Agriculture; its offices are established in the palace of the 

 Ministiy of Agriculture at Pesth, and consist of laboratories and a 

 library. It possesses entomological collections and a collection of 

 insecticide apparatus. The personnel of the station is composed of the 

 director, two assistants, and a boy, and it is supported by an annual 

 appropriation of 8,000 florins. The station has organized in the King- 

 dom a special corps of reporters, who send in regular reports upon the 

 appearance of destructive iuj^ects in their respective regions. These 

 reports at first concerned only insects injurious to agriculture, but 

 since 1<S86 the field has been extended to include insects injurious to 

 forests. The reporters are farmers and forestry' agents, who send in 

 their reports gratuitously. The reports as they arrive at the station 

 are immediately examined and responses are sent indicating the meas- 

 ures to be taken against the insect in question ; or one of the employes 

 of the station is sent into the field to study the habits of the injurious 

 species and experiment upon tbe best means for its destruction. The 

 station publishes every year a general report to the Minister of Agri- 

 culture, which IS published in the comprehensive annual report 

 addressed to the Chamber of Deputies. Since 1890 the station has also 

 been able to publish special reports, which are issued in separate fasci- 

 cles and are gratuitously distributed to the public. The leaflets 

 which have been published up to the present time may be briefly men- 

 tioned, since they are written in the Hungarian language : 



1. Spraying apparatus of use in horticulture. 



2. Practical instructions concerning the destruction of locusts by the Cypriote 

 machine. 



3. Practical instructions upon the treatment of phylloxerated vines with bisul- 

 phide of carbon. 



4. Migratory locusts in Hungary in the years 1888, 1889, 1890. 



5. Reports upon insects injurious to forests during the years 1886-'89. 



6. Practical manual upon the treatment of phylloxerated vines with bisulphide 

 of carbon. 



7. The wheat weevil {Calandra granaria). 



8. Report upon insects injurious to agriculture, 1884-89. 



9. Upon the measures to be used against injurious insects. 



10. The wheat leaf-beetle {Lema melanopiis). 



Bohemia. — For a number of years prior to 1891, Dr. Ottokar Nickerl, 

 principal of the seed control station of the Agricultural Council for the 

 Kingdom of Bohemia, issued an annual report upon the principal insects 

 injurious to the agriculture of Bohemia during the year. These reports, 

 which were published for the years 1875, 1878, 1879, 1880, and 1882 to 

 1890 (thirteen in all), were published partly in the reports of the State 

 Agricultural Council, partly by the Society for Physiokratie (at the 

 time when Dr. Mckerl was ijresideiit of the entomological section of 

 the society), and partly privately by the author. Previous to 1875, 



