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be issued to all members of the Association 
by the middle of May. 
The permanent secretary presented his 
financial statement for the year ending 
December 31, 1900, which showed receipts 
amounting to $12,321.60, and expenditures, 
including $1,300 transferred to the treas- 
urer, amounting to $7,579.84, leaving a bal- 
ance to new account of $4,741.76. Some 
unusual expenditures were mentioned in 
this account, especially the expenses of 
the New York meeting, which were borne 
by the Association instead of by the local 
committee as at previous meetings, and 
the storage on back volumes and the ex- 
pense of their removal to New York, 
where they are now stored free of charge to 
the Association in the Library of Columbia 
University. The account, having been 
properly audited, was accepted by the Coun- 
cil and ordered printed in the next volume 
of Proceedings. 
Changes in their personal plans for the 
summer having necessitated theresignations 
of Professor Lord, Secretary of Section A ; 
Dr. Reed, Secretary of Section B; Mr. 
Penrose, Secretary of Section E ; and Miss 
Benneson, Secretary of Section I, their 
resignations were accepted. Dr. G. A. 
Miller was elected to fill the vacancy as 
secretary of Section A, and provision was 
made for the temporary filling of the other 
vacancies by committees. 
Dr. C. S. Minot presented a report on 
behalf of the committee appointed to con- 
sider the plan of securing a convocation 
week immediately after the Christmas holi- 
days. The Association of Universities, 
consisting of the fourteen leading American 
universities, passed unanimously a resolu- 
tion recommending that a week be set aside 
for the meeting of scientific and learned 
societies, and steps are now being taken to 
secure from the universities an agreement 
not to hold their sessions during the week 
in which the 1st of January oceurs. 
SCIENCE. 
[N.S. Von. XIII. No. 331. 
Dr. Thomas Wilson made a report of 
progress on behalf of the committee on the 
protection and preservation of objects of 
archeological interest, showing that a bill 
had been carefully drafted and had nearly 
passed Congress last session, being laid 
aside only on account of urgent legislation. 
The permanent secretary was instructed 
to take up the matter of the preparation of 
an index to the first fifty volumes of the 
Proceedings and to take such preliminary 
steps as he might deem advisable, and report 
in full at the Denver meeting. 
SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 
Gli Insetti Nocivi. By Dr. A. LUNARDONI and 
Dr. G. LEONARDI. Naples. 4 vols. 1889— 
1901. 
Since our knowledge of European economic 
entomology has largely been drawn from books 
descriptive of the injurious insects of middle 
Europe, it is a distinct pleasure to have before 
us for reference a large and valuable work on 
the injurious insects of a part of southern 
Europe—the Italian region. This work is, how- 
over, more than a compendium of the noxious 
inseets of Italy ; it is, practically, a text-book 
of Italian entomology with detailed accounts of 
injurious species. VolumesI. and II., dealing 
with the general subject, Coleoptera and Lep- 
idoptera, are by Dr. Lunardoni; Volumes III. 
and IV., dealing with the remaining orders, are 
by: Dr. Leonardi. Volume I. contains 570 
pages; Volume II., 287 pages; Volume III., 
549 pages ; and Volume IV., 862 pages. 
In the general subject are included directions 
for the control of noxious insects. Of special 
interest in the part on Coleoptera is a table for 
the determination of the species of Scolytine 
according to the nature of their galleries. In 
the second volume, dealing with the Lepidop- 
tera, the chapters treating of the Tortricidz 
and Tineidze are very full. The discussion of 
remedies for species in these two families is of 
considerable value to American workers, since 
many of these moths are injuriously abundant 
in the United States. 
In the third and fourth volumes the figures 
are more numerous and the bibliographic lists 
