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their influence with their local Scientific Societies and Public Libraries 

 and induce those in charge to purchase these valuable works for the 

 general benefit. We are glad to say that the Public Library in Toronto 

 and our Entomological Society have set a good example in this respect 

 and rendered these works available for many of our readers. 



Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Vol. L, Nos, 

 1-3.; January March, 1S90. 



We gladly welcome another addition to the serial publications on 

 North American Entomology. There is plenty of room for this new 

 monthly Magazine, as it takes charge of a field which we and others 

 have been unable to cultivate fully. It is intended to bring before 

 students and workers the news and gossip of the day gleaned from all 

 quarters of the globe ; the contents of current literature ; abstracts of the 

 proceedings of Societies, etc. We hope that the new venture will have 

 the fullest measure of success, and enjoy a career of long continued pros- 

 perity and usefulness. 



Report on Insect and Fungus Pests. No. i. By Henry Tryon, 

 Assistant Curator of the Queensland Museum. Published by the 

 Department of Agriculture, Brisbane, Australia, 1889. I Vol., 

 8 vo., pp. 238. 



We have perused with great interest this first work that we have seen 

 on the Economic Entomology of Austraha. Some of the pests referred 

 to are very familiar to us here, for instance, the Codling Moth and the 

 Woolly Aphis of the apple tree, while others are species closely allied to those 

 which are very destructive with us. The report takes up the different 

 fruits, vegetables and field crops that are most commonly cultivated in the 

 colony, and describes the insects which especially attack them ; as far as 

 possible the life history of each pest is given and remedies are suggested. 

 The work is very carefully and thoroughly done, and will, no doubt, be 

 of great value to the fruit-growers and farmers in that part of the world. 

 Its usefulness would of course be greatly enhanced by illustrations of the 

 insects treated of, but evidently there were difficulties in the way of pro- 

 curing these that could not at first be overcome. Future Reports will 

 doubtless be made more popular in this way. The author deserves much 

 credit for the valuable book he has produced. We trust that the Queens- 

 land Government will give him all the assistance and encouragement 

 possible in the prosecution of his studies in practical entomology, and 

 enable him to continue a work that is of the utmost economic importance. 



