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Efforts are made to help applicants whenever possible with identifications, 

 and the more complete these collections are, naturally of more use will they 

 be to ,the whole country. We are glad to welcome Prof. Franklin Sherman, 

 jr., at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, and as his duties are more 

 restricted than were those of his highly esteemed predecessor, Prof. W. 

 tochhead, we look for a rapid increase in the college collections. We would 

 remind all our readers that as these Guelph collections, with the exception 

 of Lepidoptera, are practically new ones, many species are entirely unrepre- 

 sented, and, if properly labelled as to localities and dates, specimens in all 

 orders taken in Ontario will be very acceptable to Prof. Sherman. Even 

 unnamed material will be thankfully received. 



Prof. Lochhead, who has done such good work at Guelph for many 

 years, has severed his connection with the Agricultural College and has been 

 appointed Biologist at the Macdonald College of Agriculture, Ste. Anne de 

 Bellevue, Que. Doubtless he will soon make collections of insects for the 

 Province of Quebec and will form at his College another centre for the ac- 

 cumulation and dissemination of knowledge concerning Canadian insects. 



Literature. 



Biographical notes on entomology appear regularly in all the entomo- 

 logical journals and scientific magazines, such as the Canadian Entomologist, 

 the Ottawa Naturalist, Entomological News, Journal of the New York Ento- 

 mological Society, Le N aturaliste Canadien, and Psyche. These publications 

 are indispensable to the working entomologist. Among the articles upon 

 North American moths, Mr. Wolley Dod's series of papers in the Canadian 

 Entomologist, giving critical notes on the Noctuids he has taken at Millar- 

 ville and Calgary are of the greatest value to students of Western Canadian 

 insects. 



Among the books which have appeared during 1905, some are of special 

 fmportance to Canadian students. 



Aldrich, J. M. a Catalogue of North American Diptera. Smithsonian 

 Misc. Coll. XLYI., No. 1,444, 1905, pp. 680.— The latest catalogue of North 

 American Diptera which has had to serve students until the present time 

 was that by Baron Osten Sacken, published by the Smithsonian Institution 

 in 1878. Many who would have taken up the study of flies have been pre- 

 vented from doing so, for the lack of some systematic list by which they 

 could arrange their collections. Prof. Aldrich has produced a most valuable 

 contribution to entomology and there are few books which have appeared on 

 this branch of science which have been so gladly welcomed as his catalogue. 

 The work is done admirably and the greatest care has evidently been taken 

 in searching literature and in verifying references. The references to Cana- 

 dian publications are very complete and with this catalogue and the four 

 Entomological Records which have appeared in our last four annual reports 

 a check list of Canadian Diptera might now easily be made out. There has 

 been an enormous increase in our knowledge of American flies during the 

 last 27 years. In the present catalogue no less than 8,300 species, are men- 

 tioned. The printing and general get-up of this work are as nearly perfect 

 as can be. We congratulate the author in having finished so well this great 

 work which has taken him seven years of patient labor. 



Cook, Mel. T. The Insect Galls of Indiana (20th Annual Report Dept. 

 Geology and Nat. Resources of Indiana, 1904, pp. 801 to 871). — We have 

 received from Prof. Blatchley a separate copy of Mr. Cook's interesting and 

 well illustrated pamphlet, which makes a fitting companion for Mr. Beuten- 

 muller's bulletin on insect galls, noticed in our last issue. This will be found 



