>32 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



Other enthusiast who searched the uttermost corner of the globe 

 for some rarity of which he could know nothing except a scientific 

 name applied by some subsequent taxonomist. Every human 

 being conscious that God gave him eyes with which to see may well 

 start his bookshelf with some volume of Fabre. 



Sir John Lubbock kept for many years a little nest of ants 

 between two sheets of glass until he learned to distinguish each 

 individual by sight. His works, although severely scientific, 

 read easily as fiction. Cict, then, your library, your two-foot 

 shelf of priceless books. Little liy little pass from primer to second 

 and third readers. A few good books are designed for young people, 

 but are fully as interesting to grown-ups. Such a one is Beard's 

 American Boys' Book of Bugs, Butterflies and Beetles. It can 

 easily develop the collecting habit. Then comes a booklet pub- 

 lished by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 

 How to Collect and Preserve Insects. It costs but ten cents. 

 The work of almost every country collector is rendered almost 

 valueless for scientific purposes by ignorance of simple methods 

 of care. 



To any one progressing thus far some text book on Entomology 

 becomes a necessity. On the editor's table stand four such, each 

 having some distinctive interest, although covering the same theme, 

 — Guide to the Study of Insects by the late Asa Packard of Brown 

 University, of which there have been many editions; Economic 

 Entomology, by the late John B. Smith, of Rutgers College; 

 Manual for the Study of Insects, by J. H. Comstock, of Cornell 

 University; and Entomology with Reference to its Biological 

 and Economic Aspects, by J. \V. Folsom, of the University of 

 Illinois, — Blakinson. There can be no choice between these 

 four leading text books. All are most readable. Chacun d, 

 son gout. Differing very slightly, perhaps a little less compre- 

 hensive, but with more detail in spots is American Insects, by 

 Vernon C. Kellogg, of the University of California. Of the Cam- 

 bridge Natural History, volumes V and VI treat of Insects, 

 by Dr. Sedgwick and Dr. David Sharp. In this the specific 

 examples given arc British or world-wide. 



To fill even a two-foot shelf possibly next consideration should 



