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changed, and since 1890 it has been called La Station Entoniologique 
de l'fitat. The establishment of the station was voted by the legisla- 
tive chamber, and sanctioned by the Kiug. It is subordinate to the 
Ministry of Agriculture; its offices are established in the palace of the 
Ministry 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 buy, 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 iu regular reports upon the 
appearance of destructive insects in their respective regions. These 
reports at first concerned only insects injurious to agriculture, but 
since lcS86 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 the 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 aunual 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 iu 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 upou 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 agaiust injurious insects. 
10. The wheat leaf-beetle (Lema melanopus). 
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 president of the entomological section of 
the society), and partly privately by the author. Previous to 1875, 
