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many other things, have also a fashion of attacking pests after they have 

 caused injury to the farmer, and somehow or other, no matter how violent 

 a disease may be this year, it does not seem to have any effect upon the 

 number of insects that make their appearance the year following. Then 

 there are a large number of our most injurious insects beyond the reach 

 of fungous diseases from their habits of life. What hope can we have of 

 reaching, for instance, the Plum Curculio larva, or that of the Codling 

 moth, both of which live inside the fruit which they infest, and are entirely 

 sheltered from the outer air and from the spores that could be carried 

 even to the very fruit that they inhabit. The truth is, that fungous and 

 bacterial diseases will be found to have a field, and that within certain 

 limitations we can make them decidedly useful; but that they will ever 

 replace poisons for many species is a question which, to me at least, seems 

 exceedingly doubtful. Natural means check insect life and prevent undue 

 increase; they can never be used to destroy completely the form of life 

 upon which they prey. If we desire to do that we must use means other 

 than those provided by nature itself. 



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ABOUT a year ago we published a request for photographs for the album 

 of the American Entomological Society and up to date have received 

 eighty pictures. Those not previously acknowledged are from Dr. Emil 

 Brendel, Chas. W. Johnson, Rev. C. J. S. BethUne, Richard F. Pearsall 

 and Miss Mattie Wadsworth. We still have room for many more and 

 again ask all interested in entomology to send in their pictures irrespec- 

 tive of whether they have written on entomological subjects or not. 



Mr. HERBERT DRUCE, the well-known student of the exotic Heterocera, 

 has been visiting this country, and has seen some of our large collections, 

 in which he was much interested. He spent some time with Dr. Holland, 

 of Pittsburgh, and Mr. Neumoegen, of New York, and also visited the 

 American Entomological Society. 



