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Finally, we may call attention to the very interesting general chapter on the 
Lycenide at the beginning of the volume, which is of more than usual interest 
and rather exceptional in a work of this kind. The work itself must serve a 
very useful purpose ; its execution is remarkably even and shows great skill and 
balance on the part of the author. There are half a dozen plates like those of 
‘the former volumes and executed by the same parties, excepting that two of 
them are chromo-lithographs, but we could wish that some plates of the early 
stages might have been added, and the direct purposes of the book for the Indian 
student would have been served by others giving structural details —s. H. s. 
MANUAL oF InJuRIOUS INSECTS AND METHODS OF PREVENTION. By Eleanor 
A. Ormerod, Second Edition, 1890. 
The enlarged and thoroughly revised edition of Miss Ormerod’s Manual of 
Injurious Insects which has lately appeared, is a work of such importance to all 
engaged in agricultural pursuits, that it is thought well to place a notice of it in 
our Annual Report so that such of our readers who have not seen it may know 
of its publication. We feel confident that a perusal of this work would well re- 
pay all those engaged in the cultivation of farm, orchard or garden crops. The 
study of economic entomology has made great progress during the decade which 
has elapsed since the appearance of the first edition of Miss Ormerod’s Manual in 
1881, and this progress is to a large measure due to the unceasing labours of this 
talented lady. Her annual reports are eagerly looked for by thousands of farmers 
in Great Britain and by scientific students in all parts of the world. They give 
4 concise account of the insect attacks which have occurred in the British Isles 
during the year which has followed the issue of the previous report. A feature 
of these reports is their practical nature, every attention being given to the best, 
not the largest number of, remedies for each insect mentioned. This character is 
also very manifest, as might have been expected, in this more important work of 
Miss Ormerod’s. There is no writer upon the practical science of combating the 
ravages of insects which attack crops, in Australia, India, South Africa, the 
United States, Canada, or elsewhere, who dves not quote her opinion as the high- 
est authority upon any subject which she has written about. This is due to the 
careful and thorough manner in which all of her investigations are carried out. 
In the last number of “ Insect Life” issued by the United States Department of 
Agriculture and edited by the highest living authorities upon economie entomo- 
logy, the following complimentary notice of this work appears :—*“ On account of 
its convenient size, admirable arrangement, plain language, and abundant illus- 
tration, it is almost a model of what such a work should be.’—“ Miss 
Ormerod’s work cannot be too highly commended.” 
Now the merits above enumerated are just the points which render this work 
so valuable, for it is perfectly intelligible to anyone who can read, and thus 
becomes almost indispensable to every farmer, gardener, or fruit grower, who 
would carry on his work in the most successful manner. Nor is this the case in 
England alone, where the work was written, for so many of the actual insects 
treated are common as agricultural pests both in Europe and in North America, 
and moreover the general principles recommended for the prevention of injury 
are applicable all the world over. Besides this from the fact that most of our 
most injurious insects are imported species, we know not at what moment any of 
those so well treated of in this work, may not appear in our midst as a serious 
tax upon our cultivated crops. The different kinds of attacks are arranged 
alphabetically under the three headings, Food Crops, Forest Trees, and Fruit. 
Some new attacks not mentioned in the first edition and which appeared sub- 
