WKITIXGS OF ECOXOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS. 19 



idoptera, Coleopfcera and Ilymenoptera have not, as yet, been published, 

 even for private distribution, as were the other orders — accompanied, 

 as thoyare, Avith extended notes collated with much care and industry, 

 and (if great i)ractical value. Many of these illustrations, together 

 with their text in manuscript, were exhibited by Mr. Glover at the 

 Entomological Convention held at Paris in the autumn of 18G5, and 

 the interest which they excited was attested by the bestowal upon him 

 of the gold medal of the Emperor, as appears in the following extract 

 from the "Documents relating to the Exposition of Inscets held at 

 the Palace of Industry, at Paris in ]8G5 :" 



" The fi^rand gold medal of tlie Emperor yet remained to be decreed, and tlie jury 

 sought to aacertaiu to whom the high award was due ; wheu, at a late hour, a 

 stranger, an American, Mr. Townend Glover, attached to the Department of Agri- 

 culture at Washington, presented himself with a work on practical entomology, 

 applicable to agriculture. This work, comprising, on 130 copper-plates, the use- 

 ful and noxious insects of North America, belonging to all the orders established 

 by naturalists, coleoptera, etc., is designed and executed by the exhibitor himself 

 from nature, and presents them in their three forms of larva, pupa and perfect 

 insect. To these 130 plates is attached a table with numbers, which refer to the 

 test, and indicate the plants, trees, or shrubs, commonly inhabited by each larva 

 or insect, mentioning the parts attacked, whether the roots, leaves, wood, fruits, 

 grains, etc. ; the nature of the damage done, the habits of the insects, the reme- 

 dies, old and new, to prevent their ravages, and, as far as known, the efficacy of 

 the remedies. These plates have been executed with the greatest care, the insects 

 being represented with exact fidelity to nature. In brief, this work, which ha? 

 cost the author ten years of research and observation, and for which he well mer- 

 its the high position he occupies in the Department of Agriculture at Washing- 

 ton, was judged, by an eminently scientific jury, to be original in its style and 

 character, and deserving to be copied by the entomologists of France as a desid- 

 eratum in the application of their science to agriculture." 



Prof. A. J. Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural College, has con- 

 tributed a number of papers on the natural history and habits of our 

 injurious insects, to the Reports of the Michigan State Agricultural 

 Sociefi/* the State Pomological Society, \ the Canadian Entomolog 1st , etc. 

 The value of several of these papers is enhanced by tiieir containing 

 the results of careful experiments with insecticides and other applica- 

 tions to prevent insect injury, in which he has been aided by his asso- 

 ciates in the college and the students under his charge. 



Mr. William Saunders, as the able editor of the Canadian Ento- 

 mologist during the past eight j^ears, an enthusiastic horticulturist, 

 and a member of the Special Commission of the Ontario Government 

 for inquiring into the agricultural resources of the Province, has de- 

 voted much time to the study of insect pests, and has published upon 

 them many papers of interest and practical importance. 



The writings of a number of other of our entomologists deserve 



* ReporUof the Mich. St. Board of Agricnl., xii, for 1873; xiv, forl875; xv, forlSTG; 

 xvi, for 1877; xix, for 1880. 



+ Reports of the Mich. St. Pomolog. Soc, ii-x, for 1872-1880. 



