Vol. 17, Nos. 1 and 2.] INSECT LIFE. [Issued October, 1891. 



SPECIAL NOTES. 



The Association of Economic Entomologists. — The bulk of tliis llUUlber is 

 occupied with the oflicial proceedings of the Association of Economic 

 Entomologists, which we publish at the request of the Associatiou. 

 The meeting this year was held in Washington, August 17 and 18, 

 and was an unqualified success. The average attendance at the meet- 

 ings was 33, and of the American members 27 were jiresent. The in- 

 crease in membership and in interest which this meeting exemplified 

 is very encouraging. 



Miss Murtfeldt's Outlines of Entomology.*— Miss Murtfeldt has prepared 

 in popular shape a pamphlet of J30 pages, with a view of introduc- 

 ing farmers and horticulturists to the science of entomology. The 

 ordinary text books seem intended for advanced students, and the 

 object of the author of this paper has been to produce a perfectly ele- 

 mentary work. She goes carefully over the subject of the general 

 structure of insects, defining the terms commonly in use, treats of the 

 transformations and the classifications antl names, and in short chapters 

 discusses the main forms of each of the orders. Tiie work is unfortu- 

 nately marred by many misprints, parti(;ularly in the technical names, 

 from the fact that the author was unable to read the proofs of a ])ortiou 

 of the paper. These, however, will utuloubtedly be corrected in another 

 edition, and at most do not seriously detract from the value of the paper. 

 Some r>0 figures of typical insects are given and duly acknowledged. 



Handbook of Australian Insects.t— In a handy volume of 150 pages, illus- 

 trated by 14 colored plates of insects and 13 in black and white of in- 

 secticide apparatus, Mr. French, the Victorian entomologist, has pre- 



* Outlines of Entomolonjy, prepared for the use of farmers and horticuUurists at 

 the request of tlie Secretary of the State Board of Aj^riculture and the State Horti- 

 cultural Society of Missouri. By Mary E. Murtfeldt, JefTorsoii City, Mo., ISDl. 



t A Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria, with notes on the methods to be 

 adopted to check and extirpate theui. Prepared by order of the Victorian Dei)artnient 

 of Agriculture by C. French, t\ l. s., f, k. il. s., (ioveruiucut Entomologist. Part I. 

 Melbourne, 1^1)1. 



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