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of the commission. This commission not only answers all questions 
directed to it, but sends out specialists to different neighboring dis- 
tricts to conduct investigations on demand. 
The bulk of this information concerning the status of affairs in Russia 
I have received through the kindness of Dr. Nicolas Cholodkowsky, 
professor in the Forestry Institute and in the Imperial Academy of 
Medicine at St. Petersburg. 1 have also corresponded with Dr. K. 
Lindeman, a well known writer on entomology, whose work has been 
more accessible to American and English investigators for the reason 
that many of his papers have been published in the German language. 
He writes me that while he holds no official position, he has been cir- 
culating many thousands of copies of brochures upon entomological 
subjects, and has given lectures upon the subject of economic ento- 
mology in various cities. He receives annually from 100 to 500 invoices 
of insects, and inquiries regarding the best means of fighting them. 
He is at present advocating the establishment of separate commissions 
on economic entomology at various points throughout the empire, with 
a central entomological commission at the Ministry of Agriculture at 
St. Petersburg. 
FINLAND. 
Finland, although an administrative province of Eussia, at the last 
quinquennial meeting of the Diet made an independent effort to secure 
the establishment of an entomological experiment station. The reso- 
lution was in the form of an application to His Imperial Majesty to 
bring about the establishment of such a station. Three of the four 
chambers composing the Diet voted affirmatively on the resolution. 
These were the nobility, clergy, and bourgeoisie, but curiously enough 
the fourth chamber, the farmers or peasants, voted against it. It is 
likely, however, that such a station will be established in the near 
future, and that Mr. Enzio Reuter will be its director, as I am informed 
by Mr. Lampa. 
SOUTH AMERICA. 
The ravages of the migrator}- locust in South America have attracted 
considerable attention, and in several states fugitive commissions have 
been formed for the investigation of this insect. Dr. Herman Bur- 
meister, the famous author of the Handbuch der Entomologie, and for 
many years resident in Buenos Ayres in the capacity of director of the 
National Museurn, while not official entomologist to the Argentine 
Eepublic, devoting most of his time to the study of palaeontology and 
the building up of a general museum, made large collections of insects, 
and in 1861, in his Eeise durch die Plata Staaten, a two-volume work 
published in Halle, utilized his official observations to summarize 
previous writings upon locusts in Argentina and to give a compara- 
tively fall account of the life history of the insect and the damage which 
it almost annually produced. In the same way Dr. H. Weyenbergh 
