﻿7 3 FIELD AND FOREST. 



will be obtained that will pay a big principal on the little interest in- 

 vested. 



But until somthing is done, we cannot urge too strongly the value of 

 fighting the pests by State legislation, that is, by the prompt appro- 

 priation of money by States invaded, for payment of bounties for 

 their capture an ! destruction. Place a price per bushel upon grass- 

 hoppers, as soon as they appear in numbers, and pay for all that can 

 be gathered, and it immediately becomes a matter of interest to the 

 whole community. 



OUR BOOK SHELF. 



Manuscript Notes from my Journal, or Illustrations of Insects, 

 Native and Foreign. Order Hemiptera, Sub-order Heter- 

 optera. By Townend Glover. [quarto, pp. 134. plates x.] 

 Washington, 1876. 



This is the third volume issued by Prof. Glover for private dis- 

 tribution, and like the previous one, or the Diptera, shows great la- 

 bor and industry in its preparation. The entire work is printed on 

 plate paper, and the "letter-press" is in the author's well known 

 chirography, the pages having been transferred to lithographic stone 

 from the copy furnished. The plates also, are engraved on copper by 

 Mr. Glover, in hours of leisure from official duty. 



The work opens with an introduction followed by nearly three hun- 

 dred figures of our principal plant-bugs, with latest names and refer- 

 ences ; then comes the Arrangement of Families, and the Classifica- 

 tions adopted by various authors, List of Families and Genera, with 

 Synonyms, Habits, Food, &c, Predaceous or Parasitic Heteroptera, 

 Vegetable and Animal substances they destroy, and insects in turn 

 destroyed by them, Authors and Authorities referred to, Abbrevia- 

 tions of Remedies used, of Sections, Families, Genera and Species, 

 with derivation of names, Classification, Notes and Extracts from 

 Prof. Uhler's list, etc., etc., the whole forming quite a comprehensive 

 work on the subject, "boiled down" to the smallest space. But 

 fifty copies have been printed, and these are distributed to Authori- 

 ties and Institutions, both in this and foreign countries, so the edition 

 is exhausted almost as soon as published. 



While this plan seems to carry out the immediate views of the au- 

 thor — and it is a matter wholly for himself to decide — we think it is 

 not altogether the most suitable way to publish a work, the several 

 parts of which have taken the best years of a lifetime for completion. 

 If we understand the author right, the work is intended, when finished, 



