Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS I3I 



This seems to us a step in the right direction. To estabHsh 

 names by common consent and the sanction of a supreme in- 

 ternational body, instead of by the ever uncertain appeal to 

 priority, will do away with one of the chief reproaches to 

 zoological work. We hope that entomologists will do their 

 utmost to assist the Commission, so that our nomenclature will 

 no longer speak a different language this morning from that 

 which it uttered last night. 



Notes and. News 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Dr. E. p. Felt has reviewed the fifth vohime (1910) of F. V. Theo- 

 bald's Monograph of the CuHcidae or Mosquitoes in Science for Jan. 

 27, 191 1. 



Mr. Fr.\ncis E. Bond, a retired Philadelphia broker, accompanied by 

 Mr. Stewardson Brown, botanist of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 and Thomas F. Gillin, an amateur naturalist, are on their way to Ven- 

 ezuela, where they will devote at least four months to the collection 

 of specimens for the museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 of Philadelphia, and for the Philadelphia Zoological Garden. Although 

 the expedition is for the purpose of enriching the collection at the 

 museum and the Zoological Garden, the entire expense of the journey 

 will be defrayed by Mr. Bond. 



The scientific services of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture are described by M. G. Severin (Conservator in the Royal Museum 

 of Natural History at Brussels and Secretary General of the recent In- 

 ternational Congress of Entomology in that city) in a paper of forty 

 pages extracted from the Bulletin de la Societe centrale forestiere de 

 Belgique, Brussels, 1910. His account of the history, organization and ac- 

 complishments of the department, in which the Bureau of Entomolog>' 

 occupies a prominent place, concludes : "Such is a very fragmentary 

 view of the department whose activities are very popular in the United 

 States. Not only that great country can pride itself on the fruitful 

 work of the bureaus, but also the entire world owes it recognition for 

 the great value of the scientific and economic works which it pub- 

 lishes, for these works contain information useful to all those concern- 

 ed with the enrichment of national agricultural productions. Such 

 labor satisfies the two principal conditions which science ought to 

 fulfil ; to understand the secrets of nature — pure science, and to be- 

 come master of them — applied science." 



