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outlay. All these works, I am glad to say, will be found in our Society’s library 
and are available for the use of the members. 
Serial publications on North American entomology continue to be represented 
by the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Philadelphia ; 
Psyche, Cambridge, Mass.; Hntomologica Americana, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Insect 
Life, Washington, D.C., and our own Canadian Entomologist. Another addition 
has been made to the list this year by the issue of Entomological News and Pro- 
ceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia. The working entomologist can hardly do without any of these 
publications ; each one occupies its own special field, and all are valuable and 
interesting. Our own magazine, now in its twenty-second volume, continues to 
be issued with regularity, ‘and, I am happy to say, receives contributions from all 
the most eminent entomologists in North America, and occasionally from others 
in Europe. 
The study of economic entomology has been making vast strides during the 
last few years, owing to the establishment of experi imental agricultural stations 
in all the States of the Union, and the appointment in many of them of a skilled 
entomologist. The bulletins issued from these stations and the central depart- 
ment at Washington are too numerous to mention in detail; they are replete 
with useful information and interesting records of experiments and observations. 
That the work is eminently scientific is shown by the names of those employed, 
for instance, Dr. Riley, Mr. Howard, Dr. Lintner, Professors Forbes, Cook, Smith, 
Fernald, Webster, Weed. These names, and many others, are familiar to us all 
as men of distinction in their several localities and departments. 
In our own country much valuable work is being done by Mr. Fletcher, the 
Dominion Entomologist at Ottawa, not only by his ‘investigations and the pub- 
lished results, but also by the addresses which he gives in different places to the 
meetings of Farmers’ Institutes. He is in this way diffusing throughout the 
country a knowledge of friends and foes amongst insects, and the best modes of 
encouraging the former and exterminating the latter. The result of his work 
must in course of time be the saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the 
farmers and fruit-growers of the Dominion. 
In England Miss Ormerod continues her unselfish devotion to the cause of 
economic entomology. Her annual reports are full of very valuable information, 
and have done much good in the mother land. It is gratifying to find that this 
department of practical work is being developed also in other parts of the British 
Empire. We have received a useful report on insect and fungus pests from the 
Department of Agriculture at Brisbane, Australia, prepared by Mr. Henry Tryon, 
of the Queensland museum, and several numbers of Indian Musewm Notes, pub- 
lished at Calcutta by the Government of India Revenue and Agricultural Depart- 
ment. ‘These “ Notes” are edited by Mr. E. C. Cotes, and contain a large number 
of most interesting and valuable papers, both scientific and practical, illustrated 
with excellent engravings. 
Before leaving this subject, I must not omit to mention the publication last 
autumn of a bulletin on the “ Mediterranean Flour-Moth” (Z£phestia Kuhniella, 
Zeller), prepared by Dr. Bryce, of Toronto, and issued by the Agricultural Depart- 
ment of Ontario. It is an excellent pamphlet and contains just what one wants 
to know about this new pest. ‘he mischief referred to seems to have been 
stamped out, at least I have not heard of any further cases of attack in this 
province, and we may be quite certain that after the experience of last year, our 
millers will keep a sharp look out for the pest, and deal with it promptly should 
it show itself again. 
