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At a further conference, held at the Colonial Office, in August, 

 1912, the matter took more definite shape and it was proposed to 

 form an Imperial Bureau of Entomology, to be supported by contri- 

 butions from the various Dominions and ( olonies, as well as from 

 the British Government. The principal functions of this Bureau were 

 to be to collect and co-ordinate all information bearing upon injurious 

 or useful insects ; to organise a system for securing the authoritative 

 identification, with reasonable promptitude, of all insects of economic 

 importance submitted by officials connected with the Departments of 

 Agriculture or Public Health throughout the Empire; to compile 

 gradually a comprehensive card-index to the whole literature of the 

 subject, and to publish monthly the "Review of Applied Entomology," 

 which is intended to give an up-to-date epitome of the current 

 literature." (Preface to the Review, No. I.) 



There has been issued newly a report on the work of the Com- 

 mittee, dated 17th December, 1913, which records great progress to- 

 wards permanent utility. I he Review in two series : Series A, Agri- 

 cultural, and Series B., Medical and Veterinary — has now appeared for 

 more than a year, the parts of series A. costing ninepence each 

 and the parts of series B. sixpence. The working value in distant 

 centres of this Review is very considerable. 



Hamel Smith, H., and Pape, F. A.G., Coconuts, the Consols 

 OF the East. Second edition, London (1914). Tropical Life 

 Publishing Depot., Pp. Ixviii and 644 with many illustrations. 

 Price II shillings net, post free. 



The first 400 pages of the second edition of this work are almost 

 exactly as those of the first edition, but the remaining part of the 

 book is^much altered, — slightly by omissions, greatly by additions. 

 Of the added matter the most interesting pages are those where the 

 opinions of several competent authorities are brought together in a 

 discussion of the cost of making copra. This industry to date in 

 various lands is discussed. Recent developments such as the use of 

 explosives in agriculture find a place ; Dr. Friederichs coconut-beetle 

 fungus is described. But the part of the book dealing with insect 

 pests should have been made fuller and have been well illustrated. 



ZiMMERMAN'N, A., DER MAMHOT-KAUTSCHUK, SEINE KULTUR, 



Gew^innung and Praparation, Jena (Gustav Fischer), 1913, pp. 

 1-342, with 151 figures in the text. Price nine marks, unbound ; ten 

 marks, bound. This book gives a very complete account of the 

 rubber-yielding species of Manihot. The author is Director of the 

 Imperial Agricultural Institute of Amani, German East Africa, 

 in which country their cultivation has been taken up more than 

 in any other, and where he has been at work on them for at 

 least ten years. 



The figures in the book are originals from the author's 

 photographs or from drawings made for him. The text covers the 



