lOH THE entomologist's KECOKI). 



know of who have collected and observed insects in all parts of the 

 worlJ, with possibly the sole exception of Commander J. J. W^alker, 

 R.N., F.E.S. Certainly nobody has given the entomological world 

 the results of his observations spread over so many years and relating 

 to so many countries. 



The book, for the most part, consists of the contents of the author's 

 notebooks, interspersed with the relation of such episodes as came 

 under his notice from time to time. It is altogether delightful reading 

 from cover to cover. An account of a trip to Eannoch is told so 

 simply, yet vividly, that it will recall happy memories to the reader 

 who has likewise visited this famous " ground." 



After taking us from Wimbledon and Rannoch to Australia and 

 New Zealand — meantime treating of India, China, Japan, Algeria, 

 South Africa, South America, etc.- -the author {vide Chap. X.) ceases 

 to become the interesting traveller, and shows that he is no mean 

 student of various scientific problems. Here are discussed such items 

 as " Scents," Tenacity of Life, Experiments of Palatability, Successful 

 Mimicry, Selection of Coloured Resting Places, Heliotropism, etc. 



The authentic details therein noted are rightly placed on permanent 

 record, as it is not too much to hope that in the future a new Darwin 

 will arise and utilise them by giving us inferences of lasting value. 



Finally our best thanks are due to Dr. Longstaft' — or shall we say 

 to his friend the well-known student Dr. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S. ? — for 

 placing before us excellent translations (by E. A. Elliott, F.Z.S., 

 F.E.S.) of a series of papers by Dr. Fritz Miiller dealing with the 

 Scent-organs of Lepidoptera. It should be added that these important 

 papers are accompanied bj' excellent plates illustrating the points 

 dealt with. — (Id.) 



Repokt of the Agricultukal Research Institute and College^ 

 PusA, 1910-11. Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta, 

 India. 



A perusual of this Government publication extending to 

 102 pp. of closely printed matter (quarto) makes one proud of his 

 fellow countrymen. From the Director's (E. .1. Butler, M.B., F.L.S.) 

 Report we note that the Institute is organised in seven scientific 

 sections : Agricultural, Chemical, Botanical, Mycological, Entomo- 

 logical, Second Entomological, and Bacteriological, and that the work 

 for the year was executed by only eight European officers of the Pusa 

 statr, and of these two were engaged in Baluchistan developing the 

 fruil industry of that province. 



To readers of The Record, etc., the chief interest will centre round 

 the Report of the Imperial Entomologist, known to us at home as 

 T. ]5ainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., F.E.S., F.L.S. He says that having in 

 view the enormous areas dealt with and the general ignorance of the 

 cultivating classes regarding insect pests and their control, the number 

 of assistants employed in Entomological work in the Provincial 

 Agricultural Departments is quite inadequate. Reference is made to 

 the steady progress made in investigating the insect-pests of crops in 

 Madnis, to the experiments against Termites at Hoshangabad, to the 

 work against Potato Moth and Cane Grasshopper, and also to the 

 Uice Grasshopper and the Semiaquatic Rice Caterpillar. Altogether 

 it is very interesting to read of the never wearying, unostentatious, 

 yet forceful and fit;itful work of our confreres in other lands. (In.) 



