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general recognition of the high importance of this subject both in its 

 agricultural and medical aspects, but also to the greater activity in 

 the development of tropical areas, where the depredations of insects 

 are most severely felt. It may be said with some degree of certainty, 

 that there is at present no single institution in the world at which all 

 these multifarious journals may be consulted. 



Much current literature in Entomology, as in other subjects, 

 is not orginal or important, but the quantity which is entitled to 

 these two adjectives is so great that the necessity of listing or 

 abstracting it for the use of investigators becomes more press- 

 ing every year. The Review just quoted is the latest attempt to 

 do this in certain entomological fields. All the existing biblio- 

 graphical agencies appear to be necessary, for experience has 

 shown that no one of them succeeds in attaining completeness. 

 Whether this failure is partly due to the fact that some authors 

 and publication agencies send their work to one bibliographer, 

 some to other recorders, seems to be a matter well worthy of 

 consideration by those in charge of such praiseworthy and 



useful drudgery. 



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Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



The British Imperial Bureau of Entomology. 



In the summer of 1911, when the prime ministers of the self-gov- 

 erning dominions were present in England, they were invited by the 

 Secretary of State for the Colonies to discuss with the Entomological 

 Research Committee (appointed by the Colonial office in 1909) certain 

 proposals for furthering and co-ordinating the investigation of in- 

 jurious insects throughout the Empire. At this meeting it was 

 unanimously ageed that the establishment of a central organization 

 for this purpose was desirable, and consequently a tentative scheme 

 was submitted for the consideration of the Colonial Governments 

 concerned. 



At a further conference, held at the Colonial office in August, 1912, 

 the matter took more definite shape, and it was proposed to form an 

 Imperial Bureau of Entomology, to be supported by contributions 

 from the various Dominions and Colonies, as well as from the British 

 Government. The principal functions of this bureau will be to collect 

 and co-ordinate all information bearing upon injurious or useful in- 

 sects ; to organize a system for securing the authoritative identifica- 



