6 The Humming Bird. 



are willing to erect a duplicate Eddystone lighthouse as a 

 beacon light for steamers carrying passengers to the Fair. In- 

 vitations have been sent to famous men of letters of all 

 countries inviting them to prepare contributions in prose and 

 verse for the World's Fair congresses. It is hoped that Sir 

 Edwin Arnold will write the hymn for the opening of the con- 

 gress on religion. Contributions are also expected from Lord 

 Tennyson, John G. Whittier, Oliver W. Holmes, and others. 



The Council of the Society of Arts, which is the Royal 

 British World's Fair Commission, after listening to the highly 

 favourable report of Commissioners Sir Henry Wood and 

 James Dredge, relative to their investigation of Exposition 

 matters at Chicago, decided to appoint committees on finance, 

 fine arts, Indian, colonial, engineering, manufactures, electricity, 

 agriculture, mines and metallurgy, textile industries and trans- 

 portation, and also a committee on women's work to co-operate 

 with the Board of Lady Managers in Chicago. It also voted 

 to invite the assistance of chambers of commerce and local 

 committees throughout England. 



(To be continued?) 



Review of New Scientific Books. 



A Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria, with Notes 

 on the Methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them. 

 By C. French, F.L.S., Government Entomologist. Part I. 

 Melbourne, 1891. 



This handbook, prepared by order of the Victorian Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture is a practical and popular work, intended 

 to be of much use to Farmers, Orchardists, Vignerons, Horti- 

 culturists, and all other persons interested in agriculture. The 

 woodcuts and coloured plates, twenty-seven in number, have 

 been executed by Mr. C. C. Brittlebank, of the Field Naturalist's 

 Club, and the well known Melbourne firms of Messrs. Troedel 

 and Co., and Messrs. Sands and McDougal. The printing of 

 the letterpress, by the Government Printing Office. 



A short introduction to Entomology is given. This has been 

 taken from Miss Ormerod's well-known and valuable work, 

 A Manual of Injurious Insects. 



A brief account of the classification of insects has been taken 

 from Professor Westwood's well-known work, A Guide to 

 Modern Classification of Insects. 



The First Part contains a systematic description, with an 

 account of the noxious insects of the Colony, which attack 

 apples, pears, apricots and cherries. 



