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FIELD AND FOREST. 



At a late meeting of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, Dr. M. C. Cooke exhib- 

 ited specimens of a vine disease which 

 has lately appeared in portions of France, 

 which has given rise to considerable anx- 

 iety. It is the result of the attack of a 

 fungus, Phoma viticola. It will be further 

 reported upon. 



Dr. McMurtrie who represents the De- 

 partment of Agriculture at the Paris Ex- 

 hibition, and who has charge of its ex- 

 hibits, sails March 28, on the Celtic. 



Japan has an active Archeeological So_ 

 ciety called Kobutzu-kai (Society for Old 

 Things.) There are 200 members, chiefly 

 wealthy Japanese gentlemen, learned men 

 and priests, scattered throughout the 

 land. They meet once a month in Yeddo. 



OUR BOOK SHELF. 



Annual Report of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario for the year 

 1877. Printed by order of the Legis- 

 lative Assembly, [Imp. 8vo., pp. 59; 

 illust. 50, and I plate.] 



This is the Seventh Annual Report of 

 this flourishing Society, the work before us 

 containing reports by Wm. Saunders, Rev. 

 C. J. S. Bethune, B. Gott, and Joseph 

 Williams, with minor papers from other 

 contributors. Among the subjects treated 

 are "The Aphides or Plant Lice," '-Our 

 Common Wood Boring Insects" "Some of 

 our Fruit Insect Enemies," "Grape Vine 

 Galls" and "The Hessian Fly." Recent 

 Notes on the western locust, on the Colo- 

 rado beetle &c, are given, the whole for-t 

 ming a most useful document. 



On the Larval Characters and Habits 

 of the Blister-beetles belonging to the 

 genus Macrobasis and Epicauta, &c, with 

 five other papers by Charles V. Riley. 

 8vo., pp. 38, 1 plate. From Transactions 

 of Academy of Science of St. Louis, Vol. 

 Ill, No. 4. 



Sixth Report of the State Etomol- 

 ogist on the noxious and benefic- 

 IAL Inserts of the State of Illi- 

 nois. By Cyrus Thomas. Spring- 

 field, 111., 1877. (pp.174; illust. 30.) 

 Prof. Thomas has our thanks for this, 

 his first report as State Entomologist. The 

 volume is in two parts, Part I being a re- 

 port proper of some 60 pages on various 

 noxious insects, with the latest facts in 

 reference to them. Part 2, upon Coleop- 

 tera or beetles, is "the first part of a manual 

 of economic entomology for the State of 

 Illinois," which the author proposes to con- 

 tinue from year to year till the various 

 orders have been exhausted. 



The Bee Keeper's Text Book. By 

 N. H. and H. A. King. New York, 

 King and Slocum. [Illustrated, pp. 



139-] 



This useful manual is published in Ger- 

 man and English at forty cents a copy 

 postpaid, and is now running through its 

 twenty-third edition. Ithas been thorough- 

 ly revised, and embraces the latest "dis- 

 coveries and improvements in bee keep- 

 ing; and, in short, just the information 

 most useful to the apiarian. 



Additions et Corrections a la Faune 

 Coleopterologique de la province 

 de Quebec, 1877, par L'abbe Pro- 

 vancher. 



This is an octavo pamphlet of thirty- 

 eight pages, with descriptions and notes 

 upon over ninety species of beetles new to 

 the Canadian fauna. 



Fifth and Sixth Annual Reports of the 

 Curators of the Museum of Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, (Middletown, Conn,) including a 

 history of the Museum from its forma- 

 tion. 8vo. pp. 30. 



The Erysiphei. By C. E. Bessey. 20 

 page pamphlet; two plates. Extracted 

 from the Seventh Biennial Report of the 

 Iowa Agricultural College, December, 

 1877. 



On the Pelvis and External Sexual Or- 

 gans of Selarchians. By S. W. Garman. 

 8vo pamph., pp. 14. From Proceedings 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History. 



