Russian Entomological Society

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The Russian Entomological Society ( Russian Русское энтомологическое общество transcribed Russkoye entomologitscheskoje obschtschestwo , scientific. Transliteration Russkoe ėntomologičeskoe Obščestvo ) in St Petersburg is an existing since 1859 entomological scientific society.

history

After no entomological scientific association had previously existed in the Russian Empire , the entomologists joined together in 1859 to form a scientific society, whose statutes were confirmed on February 23, 1859. The German-Baltic naturalist Karl Ernst von Baer became the first president and opened the first meeting of the society in May 1860 with a lecture in German: Which view of living nature is the right one? and how does this view apply to entomology? In this lecture von Baer unfolded his famous criticism of the abandonment of the concepts of purpose and purposefulness in the natural sciences.

In the same year von Baer also spoke about observations of harmful insects and about the means against them and thus entered a further field of activity of the entomological society, namely work on the economic importance of insects harmful to agriculture.

From 1885 onwards, the Society received 500 rubles annually from state funds for research into harmful insects; the excursions and expeditions of its members had two aims: 1. the study of the entomological fauna and entomobiology; 2. Pest research.

Due to the First World War, the October Revolution , the civil war and the political upheavals in Russia, the company's work could only be continued under difficult conditions from 1917 onwards. In 1923 the society had 24 honorary members, 308 full and 78 corresponding members; the library contained 5,000 volumes and its seat was in the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Petrograd, as Saint Petersburg was now called.

After further very difficult conditions caused by the Second World War, the work of the company continued.

Publications

The journals of the Russian Entomological Society have a long and complex editorial history. The first volume appeared in 1861, three years after the company was founded. The series appeared

  • Труды Русского энтомологического общества , Trudy Russkogo ėntomologičeskogo obščestva , negotiations of the Russian Entomological Society
  • Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae , variis sermonibus in Rossia usitatis editae , Negotiations of the Russian Entomological Society, in the various languages ​​used in Russia
  • Русское энтомологическое обозрение , Russkoe ėntomologičeskoe obozrenie , Russian Entomological Review
  • Труды Всесоюзного энтомологического общества , Trudy Vsesojuznogo ėntomologičeskogo obščestva , Proceedings of the All-Union Entomological Society

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b N. N. Bogdanov-Katjkov: The applied entomology in Russia . In: Entomologische Mitteilungen , 12, 1923, p. 216ff.
  2. ↑ Karl Ernst von Baer : Which conception of living nature is the right one? and how does this view apply to entomology? Talked about the opening of the Russian Entomological Society in May 1860. In: Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae , Volume 1, pp. 1ff. Saint Petersburg 1861. Online
  3. ↑ Karl Ernst von Baer : About observations of harmful insects and about the means against them . In: Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae , Volume 1, pp. 159ff. Saint Petersburg 1861. Online
  4. ^ Appeal for the Russian Entomological Society in Petersburg! In: Entomologische Mitteilungen , 12, 1923, p. 216