22 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Dr. Packard, has been assisted in his work by some of the leading Entomologists 

 of the day ; while he records the notices of the Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera 

 (Heterocera) and Arachnida, Mr. Scudder takes the Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera) and 

 Orthoptera ; Baron Osten Sacken the Diptera ; Dr. LeConte the Coleoptera ; Mr. 

 Uhler the Hemiptera and Neuroptera, and Dr. Hagen the Pseudo-Scorpions. 



A Guide to the Study of Insects. By A. S.Packard, jun., M.D. Parts viii., 

 June, and ix., August, 1SG9. Salem : Naturalists' Book Agency. (50 cents 

 per Part.) 



These two parts contain the conclusion of the Coleoptera, the whole of the 

 Hemiptera, and the beginning of the Orthoptera. They are, as usual, copiously 

 illustrated, containing between them nearly two hundred excellent wood cuts. It 

 is announced that one more part will complete the work. 



First Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science 

 Salem, Mass., 1869. 8vo. pp. 103. 



Through the munificence of Mr. Peabody, of world-wide celebrity, who gave 

 the sum of $140,000 for the "promotion of science and useful knowledge in his 

 native County of Essex," the Peabody Academy of Science has been founded at 

 Salem by the amalgamation of the Essex Institute and the old East India Marine 

 Society. The new Academy was inaugurated in a befitting manner during the 

 recent meeting of the American Association at Salem, and has now entered upon, 

 we trust, a long career of usefulness and prosperity. The report before us sets 

 forth all the particulars respecting the foundation of the Academy and the forma- 

 tion of its admirable museum, and includes interesting and valuable reports by 

 the Director (F. W. Putnam) and the Curators, who are widely known as the 

 joint Editors of the American Naturalist. Dr. Packard adds a list, with descrip- 

 tions of new species, of the Hymenopterous and Lepidopterous insects collected 

 by the Smithsonian Expedition to South America under Prof. Orton ; and Mr. 

 Morse, a description of a new shell (Actinodolus) taken in Essex County. The 

 "proposed plan of operations" submitted by the Director and Curators is well 

 worth the consideration of all connected with similar institutions, and might be 

 advantageously followed by our own " Canadian Institute" at Toronto. Would 

 that some of our men of wealth could be induced to take an interest in this 

 institution, and place it in a permanent and efficient condition, so as to enable it 

 to accomplish for this Province what the Peabody Academy is now doing for its 

 own County of Essex. 



The Canadian Naturalist. New Series, Vol. iv., No. 2, June 1869. Montreal : 

 Dawson Brothers. ($3 per vol.) 



We are glad to hear that this long-established Journal has now been placed 

 upon a new footing, and is likely to be issued with regularity. Instead of appear- 

 ing bi-monthly as before, it is now to be issued quarterly, though with the same 

 amount of matter as formerly in the volume ; it is to be conducted by an editing 

 committee of members of the Natural History Society of Montreal, and is to 

 include a larger field of popular science than before. The number before us 



