Russian Entomological Society

Russian Entomological Society

The Russian Entomological Society is a Russian scientific society devoted to entomology.

The Society was founded in 1859 in St. Petersburg by Karl Ernst von Baer , Johann Friedrich von Brandt who was then the director of the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science , Ya. A. Kushakevich, Colonel Alexandr Karlovich Mandershtern , Alexander von Middendorff and Colonel of General Staff Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky. Karl Baer was elected the first president of the Society.

External links

* [http://www.zin.ru/societies/res/eng/index.html Official Site]


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