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List of Forest Wardens and Local Moth Superintendents — Con. 



1 Chief of fire department. 



* No forest area. 



Trip to Europe. 



The State Forester was sent as a delegate to attend the meet- 

 ing of the Second International Entomological Congress, which 

 convened at Oxford, Eng., August 4 to 10, and to the Black 

 Forest of Germany to study forestry conditions. The entire trip 

 of six weeks was not only of great interest, but it is hoped it will 

 prove of value in the State work. At Oxford there was an as- 

 sembly of entomologists from all over the world, fourteen from 

 America. The meetings were held in the old historic University 

 buildings of Oxford, and the deUberations were of a very high 

 order and participated in, in three languages, namely, English, 

 French and German. Specialists were present who knew insect 

 life of every phase, species and country, and it was an excep- 

 tional opportunity to exchange ideas and secure new information. 

 The work of the suppression of the gypsy and brown-tail moths 

 in Massachusetts I found was familiar to all, and in fact Massa- 

 chusetts, its undertakings and accomplishments in its insect war- 

 fare, was frequently alluded to by various delegates as meriting 

 the congratulations of all countries of the world. In talking with 

 the delegates from other nations, and especially with those who 

 had observed the habits of these insects in countries other than 

 their own, it was interesting to compare their observations with 

 our own. Instinctively, when in England, I found myself looking 

 the trees over for the accustomed insect life, but without avail. 



