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Some Recent Publications. 



The past year has been fruitful as to the number of important publi- 

 cations issued. First and foremost from our standpoint is the "Manual of 

 Fruit Insects" prepared by Slingerland and Crosby and published by the 

 Macmillan Company. This valuable work is a most comprehensive 

 treatise on fruit insects, and makes available to students and the general 

 reader the large number of observations and experiments carried on by 

 many workers in recent years. Second, we welcome the "Handbook of 

 Medical Entomology" prepared by Doctors Riley and Johanssen, also of 

 Cornell, and published by the Comstock Publishing Company. The im- 

 portance of insects as carriers of disease is becoming better recognized, and 

 this recent publication places the latest information at the disposal of the 

 public. The third publication is "Injurious Insects to the Household" 

 by G. W. Herrick, published by the Macmillan Company. The fourth 

 work is the "Manual of Weeds" by Miss Ada Georgia, published by the 

 Macmillan Company. This book is a fairly complete treatise on weeds 

 and furnishes much interesting and valuable information in a very readable 

 form. The illustrations are excellent. 



