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THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



COMPLIMENTARY. 



At the late meeting of the Missouri State Hor- 

 ticultural Society, held at Columbia, a resolu- 

 tion was offered, strougly recommcuding the 

 American Entomologist to the horticulturists 

 throughout the countr)'. 



A similar resolution was afterwards offered by 

 Dr. Warder of Ohio, at the meeting of the Illinois 

 State Horticultural Society, at Bunker Hill, and 

 it was warmly suisported by Prof. Turner of 

 Jacksonville, and unanimously ado]5ted. We 

 ask for no higher commendation of our work 

 than these good words of encouragement from 

 bodies of such intelligence, and composed of 

 men so well able to judge of its merits. 



Among the very many excellent and flatter- 

 ing notices which the Entomologist has re- 

 ceived, we make room for the two following on 

 account of their brevity. The Bound Table 

 says : 



" St Louis has recently produced a monthly 

 with whose appearance and evident thorough- 

 ness we are greatly pleased. This is The 

 American Entomologist, of which we shall 

 take pleasure in speaking at greater length 

 when our acquaintance with it shall have be- 

 come longer. Meanwhile we may say that its 

 twenty well-filled and admirably illustrated 

 pages of reading matter are chiefly devoted to 

 the insects whose habits affect agriculturists, 

 particularly throughout the Mississippi Valley, 

 and that about the neat little pamphlet there is 

 an unmistakable assurance of honest work by ac- 

 complished naturalists." 



The American Farmer, of Kochcster, N. Y., 

 says : 



"This capital new monthly has reached its 

 . fourth number, and seems to be just the thing 

 needed in these days of insects. "While emi- 

 nently scientific, it is thoroughly practical 

 without a vestige of quackery. It is beautifully 

 printed and illustrated, containing just the kind 

 of matter, it seems to us, the most needed by 

 farmers and fruit growers." 



PAPER-MAKERS. 



It is only within the last few years that man 

 has succeeded in making paper out of wood, and 

 even now the process is not practically a suc- 

 cessful one. Yet the hornets — those "natural 

 paper-makers from the beginning of time," as 

 Harris felicitously called them — ^liave been mak- 

 ing a kind of tough, gray waterproof paper out 

 of wood every summer from the most remote 

 antiquity. 



ON ODR TABLE. 



L' Insectologie Agricole — A monthly papier 

 of 32 pages, E. Donnaud, editor, Paris, France. 

 The October number of this journal has been 

 received. We had supposed the American 

 Entomologist to be the only paper in the world 

 devoted entirely' to economic entomology, and 

 there probably is no other paper of the kind 

 in the English language; but "L' Insectologie 

 AgTicole,i' is devoted to the same interests, and 

 treats of useful insects and their products, 

 noxious insects and their ravages, and of prac- 

 tical methods of combating them. The number 

 before iis contains a colored plate of the com- 

 mon Itch-mite {Acarus scahiei, Linn.), ac- 

 companied with an interesting account of that 

 minute pest. A table, sliowing the number of 

 caterpillars, chrysalids, and cockchafers, which 

 seventy-six pupils, in a common school at 

 Phalempin, destroyed bBtween the 1st of Feb- 

 ruary and the 14th of July, gives the aggregate 

 as 23,003. A revue of the market, with xirices 

 for all kinds of insect produce is also given. 



Cecil's Books of Natural History, in three 

 volumes. Cecil's Book op Beasts; Cecil's 

 Book op Birds; Cecil's Book op Insects. 

 16mo, 200 pages each. Handsomely illustrated. 

 Retail price, $1.25 per volume; in sets, $3.50. 

 Published by Clarke & Co., No. 8 Custom House 

 Place, Chicago, Ills. 



These books are gotten up in a very neat and 

 ]3opular style. They contain interesting read- 

 ing for young folks, and will make an admira- 

 ble Christmas present. 



lyThe American IKaturalist, published at 

 Salem, Mass., has the following announcement 

 in the December number : 



The approaching close of the second volume of the 

 Naturalist , while exhibiting the gxatifyiug fact that the 

 subscription list has been constantly increasing from 

 the start of the undertaking, .also brings conclusive evi- 

 dence that the Magazine cannot be maintained, with 

 the present circulation , iit its present low price. The 

 Editors are therefore most relviotantly forced to increase 

 the subscription price of the Magazine to $4.00 a year, 

 commencing with the third volume, March, 1869. 



After the 1st of March , 1869 , our regular price for 

 Vols. I and II will be $4.00 each, unbound, and $5.00 

 each, boitnd, postage p.aid. Single numbers of all three 

 volumes will be 35 cents each . 



Club rates for Vol. Ill to present subscribers renew- 

 ing for Vol. Ill will be as follows, until March 1st, 1869 : 

 For a club of live, $17.00; of ten, $32.00; of twenty, 

 $60.00, and a free copy to the person sending the money. 



The club price of the Entosiologist with the 

 JSTaturalist will therefore be $4.00 in future, and 

 we cannot wish our friends at Salem bettor suc- 

 cess than that every one of our subscribers 

 should, in sending their names, send also for 

 the Naturalist. 



