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Canadian Spiders, by J. H. Emerton. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy, Vol. 

 IX., July, 1894. Thirty pp., four plates. 



This interesting and valuable paper treats of spiders collected in various par (s of 

 Canada from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The author states at the 

 outset that the species differ little from those of the New England States. "Out of sixty-one 

 species, from Labrador tn Manitoba, fifty six species live in New England ; and twenty- 

 seven out of forty-eight species from the Rocky Mountains. Of the latter no less than 

 forty of the species mentioned were collected by Mr, Bean at Laggan, and of these 

 sixteen are described as new to science. Mr. Tyrrell, of the Geological Survey of Canada, 

 supplied other species from the Rocky Mountain Region, Alberta Territory and Ottawa, 

 and other collectors from the various localities mentioned in the paper. The plates 

 illustrating the new species are admirably drawn by the ".uthor, the excellence of whose 

 work in scientific illustration has long been well known and highly appreciated. — C. J. S. B. 



Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests, during 

 THE year 1894, with Methods of Prevention and Remedy. Eighteenth Report. By 

 Eleanor A. Ormerod, F. R. Met. Soc. etc., etc., London ; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, 

 Kenb & Co , Limited, 1895, pp. 122, Ixii, plate. 



In this the author has given us another of her most excellent annual reports, if 

 anything, better than those that have preceded it. There are twenty-nine species, besides 

 the two groups, lulidfe and Vespidns, fully treated in the report which is illustrated by 

 forty five figures and one excellent plate, the latter devoted to the Stem Eelworcn, 

 Tylenehus devastdlrix, in connection with its recent discovery as injurious to hops. 

 We congratulate the author on being able to give us so much information on Eel worms, 

 Warble Fly and carabid enemies of the strawberry. In fact she has, throughout her 

 report strictly adhered to the plan expressed in the preface, viz., " not to enter again on such 

 of our common infestations as have been repeatedly noticed in my preceding reports, 

 excepting where there was some new information to be given, or (sometimes) needed." 

 This renders the report of unusual value. To do the publication justice is simply out of 

 the question in an ordinary book notice, but suffice it to say that it is in every way a 

 credit to its author. 



The writer \vell remembers an evening spent with the late Frazer S. Crawford, at 

 his suburban home near Adelaide, South Australia. We had been discussing entomology 

 and entomologists, when he made a remark something like this. " Miss Ormerod is a 

 noble woman and is giving both her life and her wealth to the agricultural interests of 

 England, and I cannot understand why she should not be better appreciated by English- 

 men." The sentiment will be echoed by American entomologists, but I fear in our 

 hurry and bustle, we forget to drop an occasional word of encouragement and apprecia- 

 tion, such as we ourselves would gladly receive. Working almost alone, and compara- 

 tively unaided, in a labour of love not always appreciated, it seems to me that words of 

 encouragement from her colleagues, both in America and out of it, are but matters of 

 justice. Other reports on economic entomology there are, and they come officially from 

 the Board of Agriculture of England, but the writer has searched through them in vain 

 for tokens of originality or just credit for the information contained in them. — F. M. VV. 



OBITUARY. 



Charles Valentine Riley.* 



The career of this distinguished naturalist, so suddenly closed while in gool health, 

 and with apparently many years of usefulness before him, was a remarkable one. Biologist, 

 artist, editor and public official, the story of his struggles and successes, tinged as it is 

 with romance, is one full of interest. Beginning life in America as a poor lad on an 



*The following memoir of our lamented friend, Professor Riley, contributed to a recent number of 

 " Science," by Professor A. S- Packard, is so e.xcellent and complete that we prefer to giv^e it in full rather 

 than attempt to prepare another which would not be so satisfactory — En. 



