686 Pomona College Journal of Entomology 



Dr. A. J. Cook, State Horticultural Commissioner of California, was in 

 Southern California in January, and talked at Pomona on the warfare against 

 the Mediterranean Fruit Fly. In a recent number of The California Outlook, 

 there was an article on the same subject by Prof. Cook, with a photo of our 

 Commissioner. 



A bulletin on "Honey Plants of California," compiled by M. C. Richter, has 

 been issued by the University of California recently. 



Mr. VVilhelni Schrader, of Los Angeles, is commencing the construction of 

 a specially planned building for his experimental work on butterflies, to be com- 

 pleted about March 1. 



On Thursday evening, January 18, the Entomological Club met at the resi- 

 dence of Mr. V. W. Owen, in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, with eleven men 

 present. Dr. Edwin C. VanDyke, of San Francisco, President of the Pacific Coast 

 Entomological Society and Curator of Entomology in the California Academy of 

 Sciences, gave a very interesting and suggestive talk on the origin, dispersal and 

 distribution of insects, especially Coleoptera, on the Pacific Coast. His ideas and 

 theories, divergent from those of Merriam and others, are based on his studies 

 for many years on the distribution of the Coleoptera. In California he recognizes 

 four faunal areas ; the southern extension of the Vancouverian fauna, the Sierran 

 offshoot of the latter, the Californian area, and the Sonoran area ; above the 

 Sierran are the Canadian, Hudsonian and Arctic zones, which, however, more or 

 less intermingle. It is to be hoped that Dr. VanDyke will publish at least a 

 preliminary account of his researches, so that the coast students may be able to 

 study and test them in detail. A general and enthusiastic discussion followed the 

 talk of VanDyke; exhibitions of specimens; and other entomological matters 

 discussed. Finally those present adjourned to the dining room, where a sumptuous 

 and elegant repast was served by the hostess. 



The Second International Congress of Entomology will be held at Oxford, 

 England, from August 12th to 1 7th, 1912. Further particulars will be announced 

 shortly. The Executive Committee proposes to find for the members of the 

 Congress lodgings in the town, or rooms in one or more of the Colleges at a 

 moderate rate; rooms in College will be available for men only. The Executive 

 Committee invites an early provisional notice of intention to join the Congress, 

 in order to be able to make the arrangements for the necessary accommodation. 

 Proceedings of the First Congress are in press and will be published shortly. 

 All communications and inquiries should be addressed to the General Secretary 

 of tlie Executive Committee, Malcolm Burr, care the Entomological Society of 

 London, 1 1 Cliandos St., Cavendish Square, London, W. England. 



