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Descriptive List of the British ANTHOMXiDiE : by R. H. Meade, F.R.C.S. 

 In two Parts, pp. 79, 8vo. London : Giirney and Jackson. 1897- 



This is a Second Edition of tlie List published by Mr. Meade in this Magazine 

 for 1881 — 83, and revised to date. As the author is an acknowledged authority on 

 this special group of Diptera, it cannot fail in being useful. About 250 species are 

 tabulated and briefly described, contained in 32 genera. The addition of an Index 

 ■would have rendered it more complete. 



Economic Entomology for the Farmer and Fruit Grrower, and for use as a 

 Text Book in Agricultural Colleges and Schools : by John B. Smith, Sc.D. Pp. 

 481, 8vo. Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott Company. 1896. 



This is a general introduction to Entomology, in which the economic element 

 is more prominent than is usual in such works. It is divided into three parts, viz., 

 "Structure and Classification," "The Insect World," and "Insecticides, Preven- 

 tives, and Machinery." Prof. Smith's name is sufficient guarantee for its general 

 accuracy, and it should prove useful as a Text Book for those pi'incipally interested. 

 Of course it is unequal, because some groups although large in extent have no special 

 economic bearing, and are passed over in few words in consequence. There are 

 nearly 500 illustrations (some of them whole page) in the text, most of them good, 

 many excellent. Almost all have done duty before, and for accuracy and beauty of 

 finish, none surpass those to which the familiar monogram of " C. V. R." is attached. 

 A very few are distinctly bad, such for instance as Nos. 41, 82, 191 and 473. And 

 we make bold to say that the perfect insect in fig. 44 has no connection other than 

 ordinal with the larva and case placed by its side, and that the name assigned to it 

 is wrong. The work should be in the library of all interested in Economic Ento- 

 mology as a book of reference. 



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Dr. Fritz 3IuUer. — Johannes Friedrich Theodor Miiller (better known as " Fritz " 

 Miiller) died at Blumenau in the Province of Santa Catharina, Brazil, on ]May 21st. 

 He was the son of a clergyman, and was born at Windisch-Holzhausen on March 

 21st, 1822, and came of a family of Naturalists, of whom his younger brother 

 Hermann, who pre-deceased him, was one of the most prominent. Fritz was 

 educated for the medical profession, but appears to have settled down to scholastic 

 duties in Germany until about 1852, when he lost his appointment during the 

 political troubles of the time, and emigrated to the newly founded German colony 

 at Blumenau in Brazil, establishing himself as a farmer ; but he soon after accepted 

 a position as teacher of mathematics at Desterro, situated on an island close to the 

 Brazilian coast. He returned to Blumenau about 1867, and remained there until 

 his death. Long before proceeding to South America Miiller had made a reputation 

 for himself as an observant philosophical naturalist, and the luxuriance of animal 

 and vegetable life in his semi-tropical Brazilian home gave a strong impulse to his 

 studies in the same direction. In 1863 appeared his work " Fiir Darwin " (of which 



