328 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The George Washington University has conferred the honorary 

 degree of Doctor of Medicine on Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau 

 of Entomology and Permanent Secretary of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, for "distinguished services to science in 

 relation to preventive medicine." — \^Science. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Annual Report of the New Jersey State Museum, including a Report 

 of the Insects of New Jersey, for 1909. Prepared under the direction 

 of Prof. John B. Smith, State Entomologist. 



The first edition of the "Insects of New Jersey" was published in 

 1890 and a second in 1900. As the latter has long been exhausted, and 

 as there has been so much demand for it, the present one was issued in 

 19 10. It contains the Curator's Report, followed by : 



Part I. — Treating of insects, their classification and distribution. 

 This is divided into four chapters, which give a good general account 

 of the classification, development and faunal characteristics of insects, and 

 of the benefits and injuries caused by them. 



Part II. — Comprising a systematic list, embracing twenty-two orders 

 of insects. Each order is characterized and a general account given of 

 the habits of its members, whether beneficial, injurious or of no material 

 economic importance. The families in general are similarly treated. 

 Illustrations numbering 340, of which many include from two to eight 

 figures, are interspersed throughout. 



The present edition contains records of 331 families, 3,486 genera 

 and 10,385 species, the list of species being 1,845 i" excess of the previous 

 list, and 4,287 of the early one. The localities of most of the species are 

 given, together with the dates of appearance, habits in the various stages^ 

 and food-plants ; thus making a volume that is of inestimable value to 

 all classes of entomologists, nature students and collectors, and the only- 

 work covering such a broad field of entomology that has been published 

 by any State of the Union or by any public or private institution. 



The Report is also furnished with indices to localities and to families 

 and genera, and a coloured map shewing the faunal regions of the State. 



J. D. E. 



Mailed September 6th, 1911. 



