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for thorough discussion. A congested program in Minnesota means 

 an almost intolerable condition in this respect at Washington unless 

 some such plan is adopted. 



Adequate protection from the introduction of injurious insects is 

 most important in these days of unexcelled transportation facilities. 

 The danger increases very rapidly with the perfection of the latter. 

 There are already striking cases, discussed elsewhere in this issue, 

 where even a moderately efficient national inspection service would 

 have resulted in enormous savings, not only in the past but also in 

 the future, on account of pests already established in this country. 

 Economic entomologists have taken no uncertain position upon this 

 question, and, as officials charged with the control of injurious insects, 

 are obligated to do all within their power to establish an efficient 

 though not unduly onerous national quarantine service. This is most 

 emphatically the case where the general welfare of the people as a 

 whole should receive consideration, rather than the interests of a few. 

 We, as a people, have already taken too large chances in this direction. 

 It should be remembered that the gypsy and the brown-tail moth 

 problem in Massachusetts is only the normal outcome of the sowing 

 some twenty or thirty years ago. Such being the case, what will be 

 the result a generation hence, unless adequate steps are taken to 

 check this dissemination of injurious insects and dangerous plant 

 diseases? 



Reviews 



Farm Friends and Farm Foes, a text book of agricultural science, 

 by. Clarence M. Weed (Heath & Co.) 1910, 8 vo., pages 1-334. 



This little work gives in simple language and pleasing style, much information, 

 practical and biological, concerning weeds, insects, fungi, birds and mammals. It 

 is written by one with a large personal acquaintance with the various phases of the 

 subject, as well as an intimate knowledge of the literature. The writer has main- 

 tained an impartial attitude and endeavored to correctly place the various organ- 

 isms in relation to their environment, discussing both the injuries and benefits result- 

 ing from their activities. Written by an ardent student of natural history, well 

 known on account of his work with insects, this volume contains much of interest to 

 entomologists, and will appeal to a wide constituency because of the large amount of 

 practical and reliable information. 



A Neglected Field in Photo-Micrography, by S. B. Doten. 

 Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station Bui. 73, 1910, pages 1-15. 



This is unusual among agricultural experiment station bulletins, though very 

 suggestive, particularly as the writer adapts a field camera to the work, and by the 

 employment of special lenses secures most admirable results. The late Professor 

 Slingerland was an ardent and most successful photographer of insects and others 



