annually in Wiegmann's 'Archiv,' at Berlin, has at present reached 

 only the first half of the record of the combined years 18G5— 6. 



Abroad, the most noteworthy circumstance connected with the pro- 

 gress of our favourite Science, setting aside the appearance of several 

 important works to which 1 will presently refer, is the extension of 

 the study in new countries, or at least the establishment of societies and 

 the publication of serial works in countries where these were previously 

 unknown. During the past year an Entomological Society has been 

 formed in Italy, the founders of which announce the intended pub- 

 lication of ' Transactions ;' a few years before, in Russia, a similar 

 Society was established in St. Petersburg, which has already issued 

 several Parts of its Proceedings, under the title of ' Hora Societatis 

 Entomological Rossicae.' Some years previously an Entomological 

 Society was started in Belgium, which continues to publish its very 

 valuable ' Annales.' There is a similar Society in Holland ; and, in 

 short, the time is probably not far distant when Entomology will have 

 its specially-organized body of cultivators in every European state. 

 Already Entomological memoirs are published in the Russian 

 language : should the practice of recording valuable information in 

 the vernacular of each country become general, the study in its com- 

 pleteness of any special subject in our Science, already difficult, will 

 become almost impossible. 



In America the extension of our Science has become almost as 

 general as in Europe. The Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 

 after six or seven years' existence, has grown into the "American 

 Entomological Society," and publishes many memoirs of importance 

 in its ' Transactions.' In the United States, where the heat of the 

 summer fosters an abundant insect life, and the very rapid and recent 

 clearing of forests and prairie has rudely disturbed the equilibrium of 

 life, maintained when a region is left in its natural condition, the 

 subject of insects affects the interests and feelings of the human 

 inhabitants to a degree not felt in the old-settled countries of Europe. 

 Even at this distance we hear occasionally of the total destruction of the 

 harvests of one or other part of the Western States by the " locust;" 

 and it appears that the productions of orchards, gardens and fields in 

 this region are all subject to similar wholesale destruction. Hence 

 the knowledge gained by scientific students of Insects and their 

 habits is becoming appreciated by their fellow citizens, and Entomo- 

 logy is rising into a profession. We hear of Dr. Asa Fitch as "State 



