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86, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr. 



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27. Tucker, E. S. 1907. Some Results of Desultory Collecting of In- 



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29. Ibid. 1894. On the Hemiptera Heteroptera of the Island of Grenada, 



W. I. Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., pp. 167-224. 



30. Van Duzee, E. P., 1907. Notes on Jamaican Hemiptera. Bull. Buff. 



Soc. Nat. Sci., VIII, pp. 1-79. 



31. Ibid. 1909. Observations on some Hemiptera taken in Florida. Op. 



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32. Ibid. 1912. Hemipterological Gleanings. Op. cit., X, pp. 477-512. 



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Hemiptera of Western Pennsylvania. Ann. Carnegie Mus., Ill, 

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THE RUSSIAN MASTERS IN COLEOPTERA. 



By R. p. Dow, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



In the half dozen papers of historical nature which have so far 

 appeared in the Bulletin, and which were originally designed 

 to give a little explanation of the abbreviated name of every man 

 who has appeared as describing beetle species, but which have 

 expanded into a disconnected history of Coleopterology, there was 

 sketched: the spread of theLinnean science over Europe from 

 1755 to 1800; then its first devotees in America, Melsheimer, Say, 

 Harris and others ; its rise in England up to the death of Kirby ; 

 its spread in France up to the death of Dejean. To adhere to 

 a logical order, if not consistent chronology, one must consider 

 now the coleopterists of other lands up to the all important date 

 in the science, 1844, when our own Leconte entered into a world 

 mastery of the subject. There is little difficulty in dividing the 



