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The Southern Cahfornia Academy of Sciences has received, by gift, the 

 collection and library of the late Max Albright, of Soldiers' Home. Tne in- 

 sects, mostly Coleoptera, are contained in about 70 boxes, and include some 

 good Californian species. 



A new experimental station is being established at Santa Ana, Orange 

 County, under the direction of Prof. C. W. Woodworth. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, U. S. Entomologist, visited various sections of South- 

 ern California during the last of September, stopping off at Pomona College. 



"The United States government says that toads are worth $20 apiece 

 to the farmer as they eat up flies, bugs and worms which destroy fruits and 

 other farmers' crops. One toad is known to have caught 86 flies in ten 

 minutes." — Pacific Rural Press, Oct. 29, 1910. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, issued twice monthly at Medina, Ohio, has 

 an interesting department of short notes : — Beekeeping in Southern California, 

 by Mrs. H. G. Acklin, of Glendora, Cal. 



Mr. F. Grinnell, Jr., is editing a collection of biographies and selections 

 of the Pioneer Naturalists of California, to be published in book form, prob- 

 ably in the spring. 



The honey crop in the Imperial Valley is reported short this year, owing, 

 it is said, to the fact that cotton-fields are taking the place of alfalfa-ranges. 



The sessions of the University Farm at Davis, in the Sacramento Valley, 

 are proving very instructive to the farmers of the region. A good force of 

 lecturers and instructors are in charge, including the entomologists Professors 

 W. T. Clarke and J. C. Bridwell. 



Mr. E. W. Rust, of Whittier Pathological I<aboratory, is engaged in the 

 study of the life-histories of scale-insects. 



The Catalogue, Entomologie, 1911, of Max Weg of Leipzig, Germany, 

 No. 127, includes the library of Herr. Prof. G. Kraaz, Berlin ; it consists of 

 4343 titles, and is very interesting to the bibliophile. Another recent cata- 

 logue is that of the New York Book Mart. 



"Prof. W. T. Clarke, in charge of the farmers' institutes and university 

 extension work in agriculture, will attend the meeting of the men interested in 

 farmers' institute work which will be held in Washington. He will then 

 return to the coast to take charge of a demonstration train." — San Francisco 

 Call.. Nov. 2, 1910. 



"Daniel William Co(|uillett knows more about insects harmful to vegetable 

 growths than any other man, though he is only fifty-four years old. Since 1896 

 he has been honorary custodian of diptera in the United States National 

 Museum at Wasliington, l)ut before that he had done a large amount of 

 effective work in the farms aii<l in the orchards of Illinois and California. 

 Grasshoppers, caterpillars, and the microscopic pests which injure fruit trees 

 are his especial prey, and it was through his efforts that ladybirds were im- 

 ported to exterminate the cottony-cushion scale dreaded by horticulturists." — 

 The Argonaut, San Francisco, Oct. 1.^, 1910. 



