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simple and popular langniai^e of various aspects of insect life, especially of such 

 as directly or indirectly affect the human race. In this relation, the last chapter, 

 a brief bvit able sketch of the splendid series of modern researches that have 

 established the direct connection of insects with the propagation of disease, and 

 have furnished ixs with the means of successfully combating the most formidable 

 maladies of tropical regions, will be read vvith special interest. The ravages of 

 insects on our cultivated and useful plants, and the beneficial part played by 

 others in reducing the numbers of these injuriovis forms, as well as the mutual 

 interdependence of plants and insects, are discussed in pleasing style ; and a 

 resume of the fascinating qtiestions of Mimicry and Protective Eesemblance in 

 Insects forms, under the somewhat bizarre title of " Insect Actors," the subject 

 of Chapter IV. The illustrations, from photographs by the author, are adequate 

 and well executed, and the book as a whole can be confidently recommended to 

 those who desire to know something of the economic side of Entomology. 

 Sevex'al rather ciu'ious misprints in the scientific names of the insects allvided 

 to in the work will, we hope, be corrected in a future edition. 



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Samuel Uuhhard Scudder. — This distinguished American Entomologist died 

 May 17th, 1911, aged 74 years. He was born at Boston, Mass., on April 13th, 

 1837, and lived at Cambridge, in the same State. He was educated at Williams 

 College, and received honorary degrees from Harvard and the University of 

 Pittsburgh. From 1864 — 1870 he was custodian of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, and from 1879-1882, Assistant Librarian at Hai-vard University. 

 From 1886-1892 he held the office of Palajontologist to the U.S. Geological 

 Siu'vey ; in 1875 he served as General Secretary to the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, and in 1894 was a Vice-President of that body. 

 For several years he edited " Psyche " and " Science." His works on " Orthop- 

 tera and Diurnal Lepidoptera," the " Tertiary Insects of North America," &c., 

 are well known to all Entomologists. In 1895 he was elected an Honorary 

 Fellow of the Entomological Society of London. "We glean most of the above 

 particulars from the "Entomological News" for July, 1911, in which a full 

 account of his very valuable contributions to oixr Science is to be found, accom- 

 panied by a portrait. 



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Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Entomological Section. — The Annual 

 Meetings (two) and Exhibition of Specimens of the Entomological Section of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union were held in the Leeds Institute, Leeds, on 

 October 2Hth last. Mr. Arthur Whitaker, President of the Section, in the 

 Chair. 



