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European reminiscences. Prof. Zeller's home relations were of 

 the happiest, and the sympathy of an amiable and considerate 

 wife was his through life. And it was a life devoted to science 

 and learning. His accomplishments as a linguist and teacher 

 were well known and appreciated in Germany. We know him 

 chiefly as a biologist, the describer of the exterior structure of 

 lepidoptera. He was fortunate enough to avoid much of the con- 

 troversial spirit which accompanies descriptive entomology. 

 Although he felt deeply the uselessness of the British Museum 

 Lists and his own studies were impeded thereby, he has, on the 

 whole, little to say in criticism of others. He was not only char- 

 itable, but had schooled all natural irritability. His assistance 

 was freely given to others, and Mr. Stainton's work on the 

 Tineina acknowleges its value. He was a type of a kindly German 

 pedagogue and naturalist which hardly exists elsewhere. A. R.G. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



AN EXCELLENT BOOK. 



We have received from the publishers, Messrs J. B. Lippin- 

 cott & Co., of Philadelphia, a beautifully printed volume of 436 

 pages, illustrated with 440 wood cuts, entitled "Insects Injurious 

 to Fruits," by William Saunders, the well known editor of the 

 Canadian Entomologist. A careful entomologist, an experienced 

 agriculturist, an able chemist, Mr. Saunders unites the qualities 

 necessary to produce a valuable work on Economic Entomology 

 and, in fact, the volume before us is, without any doubt, the most 

 able contribution to a knowlegde of its subject in the English 

 language. We say this with an acquaintance of what has been 

 published both in England and America upon this subject. In 

 addition to its practical and scientific value, which should recom- 

 mend it to every orchardist and entomologist in America, it is 

 written in a particularly clear and unaffected manner, so that the 

 information it contains is readily assimilated by the reader. The 

 illustrations are superior to anything yet published in this 

 style. While many of these have appeared in Government or 

 State Reports, many are original and these are better than any we 

 have yet seen. Take, for instance, fig. 173 {Apatcia) or fig. 208 

 {Dynastes), these figures seem the perfection of drawing. The 

 arrangement of the contents is very convenient. The different 

 fruit trees and plants are treated in turn with the species injurious 

 to each and the remedies following. Sixty-four numbers alone 

 are given to the apple, which attracts so many injurious insects 

 that an old apple orchard is a place of infection for a wide dis- 



