196 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Twenty-first Report of Observations on Injurious Insects and 

 Common Farm Pests During the Year 1897, with Methods of 

 Prevention and Remedy. — By Eleanor A. Ormerod, London : 

 Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent &: Co., 1898 (is. 6d.), pp. 160. 



We beg to offer our hearty congratulations to Miss Ormerod on the 

 publication of the twenty-first of her annual reports. Twenty-one years 

 is a long period for anyone to carry on a laborious work, but this talented 

 and indefatigable lady has not only accomplished a most valuable and 

 important work, she has done so without any assistance except that of her 

 late lamented sister, and entirely at her own expense. On this side of the 

 Atlantic reports of this character are published by the Government of the 

 Province or State to which they belong, but in England no official recog- 

 nition has been shown, and though the country has undoubtedly been 

 saved hundreds of thousands of pounds by the instructions given in these 

 Reports to the farmers and gardeners of Great Britain, whereby they have 

 been able to intelligently cope with their insect foes, and employ the best 

 methods of prevention of their attacks, yet no aid has been afforded her 

 from the public purse. No recognition of the immense value of her work 

 has been vouchsafed by the powers that be. But while officially ignored, 

 Miss Ormerod's name and work are held in the highest honour throughout 

 Great Britain, and treated by the press in every department with the 

 utmost respect j and in many British colonies and several foreign countries 

 her name is widely known and her talents fully recognized. 



A single observer, however able and industrious, could not possibly 

 pay attention to all the manifestations of insect injury throughout the 

 British Isles, but Miss Ormerod has by degrees gathered together a corps 

 of observers in every county and district throughout the United Kingdom, 

 and is kept closely informed of all that causes injury or loss to crops or 

 fruit, and to live stock as well. During the past year she received about 

 3,000 letters on entomological subjects, and with the aid of a secretary was 

 enabled to attend to them all. She thus conducts at her own charges 

 what ought to be a Division of Entomology in the Department of Agricul- 

 ture at London. 



In the report before us, thirty-six species of insects are dealt with and 

 figured, their ravages described, and methods of prevention and remedy 

 fully given. Several of them are familiar to us on this side of the Atlantic; 

 e. g., Apple Codling Moth, Cockroaches, Xyleborns xylographus, Medi- 

 terranean Flour Moth {Ephestia knhniella), etc. 



From the care and accuracy which characterize her descriptions and 

 figures. Miss Ormerod's work is of permanent value to economic entomol- 

 ogists everywhere, and her reports are always received with welcome and 

 gratitude by those who have the good fortune to obtain them. That she 

 may long be spared to carry on her admirable work is the earnest aspira- 

 tion of her many friends. C. J. S. B. 



Mailed July 6th, 1898. 



