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treats many of the most fundamental and difficult problems in or- 

 ganic nature and it is too much to expect that his views of the signi- 

 ficance of the structures and habits which he describes will satisfy 

 all his readers. The book will no doubt fulfill one of its author's 

 aims in suggesting to field naturalists and nature lovers some of the 

 deeper meanings of the phenomena all around us. 



More consideration is confessedly given to the insects than to other 

 groups of animals. Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Orthoptera, 

 Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Neuroptera, Odonata and Spiders all figure 

 in these interesting pages. As is quite appropriate to the author's 

 well-known position as a specialist, the Orthoptera receive a larger 

 share of attention than any other insects, the eighth section compris- 

 ing 118 pages and including a list of Classified Habitats of Various 

 Species of Orthoptera based on their egg-laying sites, to show their 

 relation to plant formations in general (n pp.), and four pages of 

 Definitions of common environmental complexes and the various 

 habitats of plants grouped under formations. There is an apparent- 

 ly full index of 17 pages. 



The plates are three-color reproductions from colored photographs, 

 most of them presenting flower and insect groups. P. P. C. 



PROF. Vernon L. Kellogg's THE ANIMALS AND MAN, An Elementary 

 Textbook of Zoology and Human Physiology (New York, Henry 

 Holt & Co., 1911, 16 mo.) devotes 70 pages to insects out of a total 

 of 495, which is, perhaps, an instance of admirable self-control on 

 the part of its distinguished entomological author. From a peda- 

 gogical point of view it may be interesting to note how those 70 

 pages are distributed, in the different parts of the book : External 

 structure of the grasshopper 3, Mosquitos and caterpillars 12, Insects 

 in general 4, Fighting insect pests n, Mutual Aid and Communal 

 Life 15, Colors and Markings of Animals 12, Insects and flowers 10, 

 Collecting and Preserving 3. P. P. C. 



Doings of Societies. 



AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting of April 27th, 1911. Dr. Philip P. Calvert, Presi- 

 dent, in the chair, fifteen persons present. 



Dr. Skinner made some remarks on the classification of the 

 Hesperidae and said he believed in using any available char- 

 acters for keys, irrespective of natural affinities. Mr. Rehn 



