62 JOURNAL OF THE [April, 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Second Annual Report of the Injurious and Other 

 Insects of the State of New York. By J. A. Lintner, State 

 Entomologist. Albany : Weed, Parsons and Company. 1885. 

 Pp. 265. 



This Second Report, lately issued, is admirable in form and 

 exceedingly valuable in material The continuous dealing with 

 economic entomology throughout its pages amply verifies the 

 author's statement in the Introduction, that it has been prepared 

 with special reference to the benefit of the agricultural commu- 

 nity. Its full descriptions of many injurious insects, their trans- 

 formations and modes of attack, coupled with directions fur the 

 application of tried remedies, must be eminently interesting and 

 valuable to any farmer who will heed them. 



Besides other admirable characteristics which might be men- 

 tioned, this Second Report, fulfilling the hopes excited by its 

 voluminous predecessor, is especially valuable, both to the pro- 

 fessional and the amateur entomologist, on account of its repub- 

 lication of contributions to this department by Dr. Asa Fitch, 

 its full record of synonomy and bibliography, and its complete 

 table of contents, and its general and plant indexes — the two 

 latter occupying about twenty pages. 



Notes on Histological Methods, including a brief con- 

 sideration of the methods of Pathological and Vegetable His- 

 tology, and the application of the Microscope to Jurisprudence. 

 For the use of Laboratory Students in the Anatomical Depart- 

 ment of Cornell University. By Simon H. Gage, Assistant 

 Professor of Physiology, and Lecturer on Microscopical Tech- 

 nology. Pp. 56. Ithaca, N. Y.: Andrus & Church. 



" The object of histological methods is to assist the investi- 

 gator in obtaining a complete knowledge of the tissues. Complete 

 knowledge of any tissue comprises, in the writer's opinion, an 

 understanding of : (i) The gross anatomy. (2) The form, nature 

 and relations of the structural elements. (3) The blood-vessels. 

 (4) The lymph-vessels. (5) The nerve-supply, — the relation of 

 the terminal filaments of the nerves to the structural elements. 

 (6) The histogenesis or development. (7) The function or physi- 

 ology of the tissue. 



