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amount, in fact, being ridiculously insufScient to enable the accom- 

 plishment of any good results. 



Dr. Holmgren died in 1888, at the age of 69, and in 1887 Mr. Sven 

 Lampa, a practical agriculturist and a curator in the museum at Stock- 

 holm, was appointed to carry on the work in economic entomology in 

 his place. Mr, Lampa is an industrious and well-informed entomolo- 

 gist, has conducted a large correspondence, and has also published a 

 number of valuable pamphlets upon the principal crop pests of Sweden. 

 For four years now active efforts have been made by the Entomological 

 Society of Sweden, by the lioyal Academy of Agriculture, by the Eco- 

 nomic Society of Ostrogothia, and by the Bureau of Agriculture, as 

 well as by less important agricultural associations of Sweden, looking 

 to the establishment of an entomological experiment station, which 

 shall be well fitted out and supj^orted by ample means. The move- 

 ment was started at the tenth anniversary of the Entomological Soci- 

 ety, on December 14, 1889, and since that time not a meeting has been 

 held without discussion of the project in one shape or another. The 

 movement rapidly grew, and during 1893 the Royal Agricultural Acad- 

 emy addressed a lengthy petition to the King to lay the project before 

 the Legislature (Eigsdag). On receipt of this petition the King 

 asked for a report from the rei^resentatives of the Economic Society at 

 their last meeting in November, 1893, as well as from the Royal Bureau 

 of Agriculture, which in its turn asked for a report from Mr. Lampa. 

 The Entomological Society also made a special report on the subject to 

 the Royal Bureau of Agriculture. These reports are all very instruct- 

 ive, and give an excellent idea of the damage done by injurious insects 

 in Sweden. They are collected in a pamphlet which Mr. Lampa has 

 been kind enough to send the writer recently. The appropriations 

 asked for by the representatives of the Economic Society are 10,000 

 kronor for a building and 3,000 kronor for laboratory fittings, to be 

 immediately available. They further ask annual appropriations for 

 salary of director, 4,000 kronor; for an assistant, 1,000 kronor, and for 

 sundry expenses, 1,800 kronor. The Bureau of Agriculture, in its 

 recommendations, modifies the above with a proposition to rent a build- 

 ing instead of erecting one, and adds a pension for the director, as for 

 the other officers of the academy. After the submittal of these various 

 reports to the Government they were remitted to the Academy of Agri- 

 culture for further consideration, and the movement stands in this con- 

 dition at present. 



RUSSIA. 



In Russia there is no one official charged with the work in economic 

 entomology, although the question of how to enact effective measures 

 for the destruction of noxious insects has for some time attracted the 

 attention, not only of the General Government and district authorities, 

 but also of scientific and agricultural societies, through whose combined 



