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Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests 

 during the year 1894, with Methods of Prevention and Remedy. 

 Eighteenth Report. By Eleanor A. Ormerod, F. R. Met. Soc, etc., 

 etc., London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent iV' Co., Limited, 

 1895, pp. 122, Ixii., plate. 



In this the author has given us another of her most excellent Annual 

 Reports, if anything, better than those that have preceded it. There are 

 29 species, besides the two groups, Julidae and Vespidae, fully treated in 

 the Report, which is illustrated by 45 figures and one excellent plate, the 

 latter devoted to the Stem Eelworm, Tylenchus devastatrix, in connection 

 with its recent discovery as injurious to hops. We congratulate the 

 author on being able to give us so much inform.ation on Eelworms, 

 Warble Fly, and Carabid enemies of the strawberry. In fact, she has, 

 throughout her Report, strictly adhered to the plan expressed in the 

 preface, viz.: " not to enter again on such of our common infestations as 

 have been repeatedly noticed in my preceding Reports, excepting where 

 there was some new information to be given or (sometimes) needed." 

 This renders the Report of unusual value. To do the publication justice 

 is simply out of the question in an ordinary book notice, but suffice it to 

 say that it is in every way a credit to its author. 



The writer well remembers an evening spent with the late Eraser S. 

 Crawford, at his suburban home near x\delaide. South Australia. We 

 had been discussing entomology and entomologists, when he made a 

 remark something like this : " Miss Ormerod is a noble woman, and is 

 giving both her life and her wealth to the agricultural interests of England, 

 and I cannot understand why she should not be better appreciated by 

 Englishmen." The sentiment will be echoed by American entomologists, 

 but I fear in our hurry and bustle, we forget to drop an occasional word 

 of encouragement and appreciation, such as we ourselves would gladly 

 receive. Working almost alone, and comparatively unaided, in a labour 

 of love not always appreciated, it seems to me that words of encourage- 

 ment from her colleagues, both in America and out of it, are but matters 

 of justice. Other reports on Economic Entomology there are, and they 

 come officially from the Board of Agriculture of England, but the writer 

 has searched through them in vain for tokens of originality or just credit 

 for the information contained in them. F. M. W. 



