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 BOOK NOTICES. 



Manual of Injurious Insects and Methods of Prevention. By 

 Miss E. A. Ormerod. Second edition. 

 We have just received from our highly esteemed corresponding 

 member, Miss Ormerod, copies of a much enlarged and thoroughly 

 revised edition of her well-known Manual of Injurious Insects. Econo- 

 mic Entomology has made great progress since the appearance of the 

 first edition in 1881, and this progress is largely due to the unceasing 

 efforts of this talented authoress. Her Annual Reports are eagerly 

 looked for by thousands of farmers in England and other parts of the 

 world. There is no writer upon the science of combating the ravages 

 of insects which attack crops, in Australia, India, South Africa, the 

 United States or Canada, who does not quote her opinion as the 

 highest authority upon those subjects which she has studied, and 

 the present remarkable work is just what might have been expected 

 from such a writer. " Insect Life," issued from the Department of 

 Agriculture of the United States, and edited by the highest living 

 authorities upon Economic Entomology, contains the iollowing compli- 

 mentary notice of this work : — " On account of its convenient size, 

 admirable arrangement, plain language, and abundant illustration, it is 

 almost a model of what such a work should be." — " Miss Ormerod's 

 work cannot be too highly commended." 



The merits enumerated above render this work intelligible — nay, 

 indispensable, to every farmer, gardener and fruit-grower who wishes to 

 carry on his work in the most successful manner. Nor is this the casein 

 England alone where the work was written, for so many of the insects 

 mentioned are common to both Europe and America that it will 

 be found of interest to all of our readers. Moreover, from the fact that 

 most of our injurious species have been imported from Europe, we 

 know not at what moment any of the others mentioned in this work 

 may not appear amongst us as a serious tax upon our cultivated crops« 

 The different kinds of attacks are arranged alphabetically under the 

 three headings, Food Crops, Forest Trees, and Fruit. Some new attacks 

 not mentioned in the first edition, and which occurred subsequently to 



