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represented. The government exhibit of in- 

 sects, in the government building, of course, 

 was excellent, and in the forestry building 

 the exhibit of Dr. Felt, and Dr. Smith's col- 

 lection of mosquitoes were admirable, but in 

 the station exhibits in the Palace of Educa- 

 tion there was a woeful lack of representative 

 matter from the various stations. Professor 

 Gillette tells me that he had for the exhibit 

 contributions from California, Connecticut, 

 Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, 

 Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minne- 

 sota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York 

 (Geneva, Cornell), New Mexico, New Hamp- 

 shire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Rhode Island, Texas and Virginia. In 

 many instances these representative collec- 

 tions were extremely small. Professor Gil- 

 lette is by no means to be blamed for this lack 

 of representation, for he has, with the limited 

 means at his command, certainly done all he 

 could to forward this work and both he and 

 Mr. Farmer have installed the material with 

 great care and with resulting good effect. 

 Nor does the writer believe it is due to apathy 

 on the part of the station entomologists, but 

 rather to the fact that the time of the ento- 

 mologists is so crowded with other exacting 

 work, that no time is left for preparation of 

 any such exhibit as was called for in this con- 

 nection, nor were funds available. Whatever 

 may have been the cause, the result was an 

 inadequate representation of the interest in 

 economic entomology, and as such it is to be 

 deplored. 



In connection with Dr. Smith's exhibit of 

 mosquitoes in the forestry building, which 

 was certainly one of the most complete that 

 has ever been placed before the public, illus- 

 trating not only a large number of species, 

 but different phases in the work against the 

 mosquito, we must remark on a colored illus- 

 tration labeled ' Anopheles in the Act of 

 Biting ' or words to that effect. It represents 

 an enlarged figure of a mosquito filled with 

 blood, and with beak inserted, hut the heak 

 and hody are at right angles to each other. 

 While we may be mistaken, we are under the 

 impression that this genus, in biting, always 

 so raises the body that it and the beak are on 



the same line. In the education building. 

 Professor Stedman had, in addition to his 

 station exhibit of insects and photographs, a 

 good show coUeetion in Missouri's state edu- 

 cational exhibit, and Dr. Fernald had an in- 

 teresting and instructive exliibit of insects 

 (largely specimens of the gypsy moth and its 

 enemies), insecticides and photographs in the 

 Massachusetts educational exhibit, but the 

 latter exhibit would never be found by an 

 entomologist unless he were guided to it. 



P. L. Washburn. 

 Minnesota State Experiment Station, 

 November 8, 1904. 



MEDALS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 

 The council of the Royal Society have 

 made the following awards of medals for this 

 year: The Copley medal to Sir William 

 Crookes, F.R.S., for his long-continued re- 

 searches in spectroscopic chemistry, on elec- 

 trical and mechanical phenomena in highly 

 rarefied gases, on radio-active phenomena, and 

 other subjects. The Rumford medal to Pro- 

 fessor Ernest Rutherford, F.R.S., for his re- 

 searches on radio-activity, particularly for his 

 discovery of the existence and properties of 

 the gaseous emanations from radio-active 

 bodies. A Royal medal to Professor William 

 Burnside, F.R.S., for his researches in mathe- 

 matics, particularly in the theory of groups. 

 A Royal medal to Colonel David Bruce, 

 R.A.M.C, F.R.S., for his researches in the 

 pathology of Malta fever, nagana and sleep- 

 ing sickness, and especially for his discoveries . 

 as regards the exact causes of these diseases. 

 The Davy medal to Professor William Henry 

 Perkin, jr., F.R.S. , for his discoveries in or- 

 ganic chemistry. The Darwin medal to Mr. 

 William Bateson, F.R.S., for his contributions 

 to the theory of organic evolution by his re- 

 searches on variation and heredity. The Syl- 

 vester medal to Professor Georg Cantor for 

 his researches in the theories of aggregates 

 and of sets of points of the arithmetic con- 

 tinuum, of transfinite numbers, and Fourier's 

 series. The Hughes medal to Mr. Joseph 

 Wilson Swan for his invention of the electric 

 incandescent lamp and various improvements 

 in the practical applications of electricity. 



