104 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
SCIEN TIC: PUBLICATIONS: 
BY THE EDITOR. 
From both sides of the Atlantic we continue to receive a continuous 
and ever-welcome stream of serial publications, on various scientific 
subjects. In all of those devoted to general Natural History our favorite 
department of Entomology receives its due share of attention, while there 
has been no recent diminution in the number of publications specially 
devoted to this branch of Zoology. To Practical Entomology we find 
more and more space and attention directed, year by year, in the leading 
agricultural magazines and newspapers; few, indeed, of the latter are 
now considered complete without the regular contributions of an Entomo- 
logical Editor. The various State Entomologists continue, too, to afford 
us their annual Reports, filled with great stores of most valuable informa- 
tion, not only for the farmer and gardener, but for the student of nature 
as well. 
As we have not for some time directed the attention of our readers to 
the scientific serials that we are constantly receiving, we propose to devote 
rather more space than usual in this issue to the enumeration of the 
principal papers that are of interest to the Entomologist. We take the 
opportunity also of returning our grateful thanks to the Authors, Editors 
and Publishers who, month by month, and year by year, favour ns with 
their much valued productions. 
To turn to the old world first.—No more welcome visitor comes to our 
table than the weekly numbers of Mature (London: Macmillan & Co.) 
This most interesting publication has now entered upon its eighth half- 
yearly volume, and is evidently thoroughly well established in public 
estimation. Recent numbers contain numerous articles and letters by 
leading men of science on the much vexed subject of Instinct and 
Perception in Animals. During the last month there have also appeared 
the first two of a series of illustrated articles by Sir John Lubbock on 
“The Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects,” and a paper by Mr. A. 
Murray on ‘‘ Venomous Caterpillars.” 
Science Gossip (London: Hardwicke) is replete with matter of a lively 
and popular character. During many months past there have been 
published in its pages a useful series of articles on ‘Collecting and 
