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[N. S. Vol. I. No. 10. 



Jersey Forester' (May's Landing, New 

 Jersey), contains valuable and interesting 

 articles from the pens of well known scien- 

 tists. The editor, Mr. John Gifford, Special 

 Forestry Commissioner of New Jersey, re- 

 views recent forestry legislation in that 

 State, and discusses the causes and effects 

 of forest fires in the southern interior of New 

 Jersej^ ; B. E. Fernow, Chief of the Forestry 

 Division, Washing-ton, D. C, presents the 

 extent and aims of the forestry movement 

 in the United States. An illustrated article 

 on ' The Periodical Ciceda, or Seventeen 

 Year Locust,' by Professor John B. Smith, 

 State Entomologist, New Brunswick, N. J., 

 is followed by interesting contributions on 

 ' The Evil Effects of Drifting Sands Along 

 the Jersey Coast,' by Professor Charles S. 

 Dolley, President of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Education, and 

 on 'The Colony of Russian Refugees at 

 Woodbine,' by H. L. Sabsovich, Superin- 

 tendent of the Baron Hirsch Colony. The 

 example set by this publication, both in its 

 purpose and the high standard presented in 

 this first number is one which may well be 

 followed by State forestry associations 

 throughout the country. 



All teachers of botany and lovers of trees, 

 especially those interested in forestry agita- 

 tion, wiU welcome the excellent charts is- 

 sued by Miss Lewis. The execution of the 

 drawings of leaves and acorns in Chart No. 

 1 is all that could be desired, accurate and 

 finished in every detail, as might be expect- 

 ed of anything coming from the pencil of one 

 so expert, and so widely and favorablj' 

 known as a thorough botanist and skilled 

 artist. Miss Lewis, a member of the 

 Academy of Natural Science of Philadel- 

 phia and a teacher of long experience, has 

 done much to promote a love for natural his- 

 tory and to encourage its being taught in 

 our schools, and she is to be congratulated 

 upon her latest contribution to this good 

 work. Teachers have only to see the charts 



to insure the introduction of the same into 

 the class-room. 



Stiles and Hasall announce in a recent, 

 number of the Veterinarj^ Magazine the 

 discovery of a new species of intestinal fluke 

 (Distoma tricolor) in the Cotton-tail rabbit 

 (Lepus sylvaticus, JBachman) and in the 

 Northern hare (L. americanvs Erxleben). 



A NEW and serious enemy to pear trees 

 has recently been discovered in New Jei-sey 

 by Dr. Jolin B. Smith. It is a flat-headed 

 borer {Agrilus Sinnatus 01.) , a species com- 

 mon in Europe, and was imported into a 

 nurserj^ iu Union county, N. J., not more 

 than ten years ago. It is already wide- 

 spread in that State, probably occurring 

 also in New York. The last number of 

 ' Insect Life ' (Vol. VII., No. 3) contains 

 an illustrated article on this pest. 



M. G. V. Beethoumieu, in the first num- 

 ber of the current volume of Annales de la 

 Societe entomologique de France, has be- 

 gun the publication of what bids fair to be 

 a very complete monograph of the Ichneu- 

 monidm of Europe. 



E. A. Smyth, Je., of the Vu-ginia Agri- 

 cultural College, has recently examined the 

 stomach contents of a large number of 

 hawks and owls, with the result that he is 

 able to show that the good ofiBces of many 

 of these birds by far overbalance any oc- 

 casional instance of ravages upon the poul- 

 try yard. The ' trim and dauntless little 

 sparrow hawk ' is found to be a very active 

 enemy of caterpillars, grasshoppei-s and 

 other insects, as well as of the ubiquitous 

 English sparrow, and to deserve protection 

 at the hands of all farmers. 



The Cornell University Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station Bulletins for December, 

 1894 (Nos.7S,80), just issued, treat respec- 

 tivel}^ of 'The Quince in Western New York,' 

 a subject of considerable interest, inasmuch 

 as quinces are more extensively grown in 

 that district than anyiN'here else in North 



