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The cottagers to be met with here and there will tell you that they scarcely 
ever see a stranger from one year’s end to another.” (P. 248.) 
The work is illustrated with some woodcuts from capital sketches 
by Mr. J. W. Whymper, deserving of more than a mere passing 
notice. We cordially commend Mr. Jennings’ pleasant book to 
all lovers of Nature, and in this would include those who from 
physical infirmity or lack of suitable opportunity are debarred 
from using their eyes, ears and legs as he has done, with so much 
profit to himself and advantage to his readers. 
Notes of Observations of Injurious Insects. Report, 1877. 8vo, 
19 pp. London: T. P. Newman. 1878. 
In the early part of last year we received a small seven-page 
pamphlet entitled ‘Notes for Observations of Injurious Insects.’ 
In the prefatory remarks assistance was asked from both agricul- 
turists and entomologists in order to obtain information on a few 
selected species generally injurious to farm or garden crops. The 
instructions given were as follows :— 
“The points chiefly to be noted are the presence of surroundings, such as 
plants, or shelter, suitable for the food or protection of the noxious insects ; 
agricultural conditions, such as the drainage, the nature of the soil, and 
manures, and that of the preceding crop on the ground, its degree of 
cleanness and that of the neighbouring fields, and also the state of the 
weather. 
“The observations on the insects under the head of ‘“ general remarks” 
should give the date of their appearance as larvee ; numbers, comparatively, 
to previous years; and also date, and quantity of appearance, and date of 
disappearance in the perfect state, with amount of injury to crop.” 
These observations were to be returned on a ruled form which 
came with the pampblet. 
On receiving this, we must confess, we or it over and thought 
that although the object aimed at was undoubtedly a good one, it 
would probably meet with little attention, not only from lack of 
interest and lack of willing observers, but also from the fact that 
the majority of farmers and gardeners are almost entirely un- 
acquainted with Entomology. Our misgivings, however, proved 
