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THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



COMPLIMENTARY. 



At the late meeting of the Missouri State Hor- 

 ticultural Society, held at Columbia, a resolu- 

 tion was ofFered, strongly recommending the 

 American Entomologist to the horticulturists 

 throughout the country. 



A similar resolution was afterwards offered by 

 Dr. Warder of Ohio, at the meeting of the Illinois 

 State Horticultural Society, at Bunker Hill, and 

 it was warmly supported by Prof. Turner of 

 Jacksonville, and unanimously adopted. We 

 ask for no higher commendation of our work 

 than these good words of encouragement from 

 bodies of such intelligence, and composed of 

 me)i so well able to judge of its merits. 



Anijng the very many excellent and flatter- 

 ing notices which the Entomologist has re- 

 ceived, we make room for the two following on 

 account of their brevity. The Bound Table 

 says : 



" St Louis has recently produced a monthly 

 with whose appearance and evident thorough- 

 ness we are greatly pleased. Tliis is The 

 Ameuican Entomologist, of which we shall 

 take pleasure in speaking at greater length 

 when our acquaintance with it shall have be- 

 come longer. Meanwhile we may say tliat its 

 twenty well-tilled and admirably illustrated 

 pages of reading matter are chiefly devoted to 

 tlie insects whose habits affect agriculturists; 

 particularly throughout the Mississippi Valley, 

 and that about the neat little i)amphlet there is 

 an unmistakable assurance of honest work by ac- 

 complished naturalists." 



The American Farmer, of Kochcster, N. V., 

 says : 



"This capital new monthly has readied its 

 fourth number, and seems to be just tlie thing 

 needed in these days of insects. AVhile emi- 

 nently scientific, it is thoroughly practical 

 without a vestige of quackery. It is beautifully 

 printed and illustrated, containing just the kind 

 of matter, it seems to us, the most needed by 

 farmers and fruit growers."' 



PAPER-MAKERS. 



It is only within the last few years that man 

 lias succeeded in making paper out of wood, and 

 even now the process is not practically a suc- 

 cessful one. Yet the hornets — those "natui'al 

 paper-makers from the beginning of time," as 

 Harris felicitously called them — ^liave been mak- 

 ing a kind of tough, gray waterproof paper out 

 of wood every summer from the most remote 

 antiquity. 



OX OUR TABLE. 



L' Insectologie Agricole — A monthly paper 

 of 32 pages, E. Donnaud, editor, Paris, France. 

 The October number of this journal has been 

 received. We had supposed the American 

 Entomologist to be the only paper in the world 

 devoted entirely to economic entomology, and 

 there probably is no other paper of the kind 

 in the English language; but "L' Insectologie 

 Agricole," is devoted to the same interests, and 

 treats of useful insects and their products, 

 noxious insects and their ravages, and of prac- 

 tical methods of combating them. The number 

 before us contains a colored plate of the com- 

 mon Itch-mite {Acarus scabiei, Linn.), ac- 

 companied with an interesting account of that 

 minute pest. A table, showing the number of 

 caterpillars, chrysalids, and cockchafers, which 

 seventy-six pupils, in a common school at 

 Phalerapin, destroyed between the 1st of Feb- 

 ruary and the 14tli of July, gives the aggregate 

 as 23,003. A revue of the market, with prices 

 for all kinds of insect produce is also given. 



Cecil's Books of Natural History, in three 

 volumes. Cecil's Book of Beasts; Cecil's 

 Book of Birds ; Cecil's Book of Insects. 

 16mo, 200 pages each. Handsomely illustrated. 

 Retail price, $1.25 per volume; in sets, $3.50. 

 Published by Clarke & Co., No. 8 Custom House 

 Place, Chicago, Ills. 



These books are gotten up in a very neat and 

 popular style. They contain interesting read- 

 ing for young folks, and will make an admira- 

 ble Christmas present. 



^=The American Xaturalist, published at 

 Salem, Mass., has the following announcement 

 in the December number : 



The approaching close of the second volume of the 

 Xatiiraliist, while exhibiting the gratifying fact that the 

 subscription list litis liccn "I'liiistnntlv incTpnsing from 

 the start ..ttln' iin.l.Tt:iliin-. :il-.. I.rin-- ,M.iirliiM\c ovi- 

 llencc tli;il tlir .Mauaziii- ■:,niM.| l.r n,:,i ,it:,iiir,| . with 

 the pi-csi-iil riiviiliiiii.ii. :a i|v pi.'-.iii |.ix\- prir,-. The 

 Editors aiT Ihri'i-ion' nm-i nluiituilly i..i-i>.'(l i.. increase 



coninu'ii.iiii; ^^illl ilir iliird volume, March, 1869. 



Aflir ilii l-i oi' .Maicli, isr.i), our regular price for 

 Vols. I and 11 uill hr SI. oil rach, unbound, and $5.00 

 each, bimml. po^lau.' ]iaiil. siii;;lo numlicrs ii( all three 



Chill rato for \ol. Ill to |iir..iaii siili-cTili.a-s i-onew- 

 ingfor\'ol. Ill Hiin.r as|,,ll..\v-, iinlil .Manli 1st. 1869: 

 For a club of live, ;>17.iiii: of i.n. s:;-.i.iii); ,,r twenty, 

 $60.0U, and a free copy lo ih,. |m i-mi -, lolinu llic inoni-y. 



The club price of till ■ MMnMdMn.i-r with llir 

 Naturalist vi'iW therefurc be .Sl.uu in future, and 

 we cannot wish our friends at Salem better suc- 

 cess than that every one of our subscribers 

 should, in sending their names, send also for 

 the JVafuralist. 



