Oct., '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 385 



Entomological Literature. 



INHERITANCE IN SILKWORMS, i. By Vernon L. Kellogg, Professor of 

 Entomology and Lecturer in Bionomics, with the partial col- 

 laboration of Ruby Green Smith, former Instructor in Entomology 

 Leland Stanford Junior University Publications, University Series 

 No. I. 



This is a work of 89 pages and four plates. For a number of years 

 Prof. Kellogg has given much study to the biology of the silkworm 

 and this important paper is one of the results of his investigations. 



INSECT STORIES. By Vernon L. Kellogg. Published by Henry Holt 

 & Co., New York. Price by mail, $1.62. 



Professor Kellogg has, in this volume of strange, true stories, suc- 

 ceeded in describing the habits of certain insects in so fascinating a way 

 that there are few people, either old or young, who will not be held by 

 its charm. Simplicity is the keynote to the studies and observations of 

 the old scientist and the little girl who figure in the book, and their 

 ingenuousness and the subtle humor, hold one's interest as much as 

 the marvelous doings of the little ground folk themselves. 



It is a splendid illustration of how interesting a book of natural 

 history stories may be, while yet purified of all "nature faking" and of 

 all the exaltation of animal hero-composites so popular in recent years. 



THE MOUND-BUILDING PRAIRIE ANT. By T. J. Headlee and G. A. Dean. 

 Kansas State Agricultural College (Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion) Bulletin 154 (April, 1908). 



It is quite pleasing to see an original and interesting piece of work 

 from an Agricultural Experiment Station. This paper tells the life 

 of Pogonomyrmex occidentalis Cresson in a concise and graphic way 

 and the species is of considerable economic importance as its mounds 

 must be a great nuisance to farmers in some sections of the country. 

 The half-tone illustrations are excellent, but lose much of their effec- 

 tiveness by not being printed on plate paper. We consider this a model 

 short paper and would be delighted to see more like it from our Experi- 

 ment Stations. The article purports to be under the joint authorship 

 of T. J. Ueadlee and George A. Dean. Mr. Headlee is entomologist and 

 Mr. Dean assistant entomologist to the Station. A foot note says : "Tin- 

 work on this bulletin as printed was independently planned and executed 

 Mr. Dean, who also made the photographs for illustrations." It 

 therefore appears that Mr. Headlee had nothing to do with the work. 

 This is therefore a most reprehensible piece of officialism and a kind of 

 piracy that we thought had ceased to exist. H. S. 



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