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parts of the country have been brought together by Mr. Marlatt, who 
has also added his own personal experience in an article which is pub- 
lished in this number. 
The Chinch Bug in 1894.— We publish in this number the conclusions 
reached by Prof. Herbert Osborn on this subject, after a trip through 
Iowa during the month of July, undertaken at our instance. Prof. 
Forbes early in the season foresaw the possibility of very consider- 
able damage by chinch bugs this year, and wrote to this office suggest- 
ing cooperative study throughout the threatened states, for the pur- 
pose of making a broad investigation of conditions and surround- 
ings — a broader one, in fact, than has heretofore been made or could 
well be undertaken by any one state officer. Prof. Forbes engaged to do 
the work for Illinois ; Chancellor Snow for Kansas ; Director Porter 
for Missouri; and we were asked to send agents into Iowa and 
Nebraska. After correspondence with Prof. Bruner we ascertained 
that investigation of Nebraska reports showed that nearly all were 
unfounded, and therefore no work was done in that state. Prof. 
Osborn, however, undertook a commission for a month, and the mate- 
rial which we publish consists of his conclusions from his investigations 
in Iowa. We learn from Prof. Forbes that he has been so fully occu- 
pied in studying the one phase of the subject regarding the practical 
use of contagious diseases that he has not been able to carry out 
the proposed work as thoroughly as he desired. The general coopera- 
tive series has, then, been partially a failure. Prof. Osborn's obser- 
vations, however, are valuable, and his full report will be digested 
and published, together with the incidental observations which have 
been made in Illinois and other states. His inferences regarding 
the question of hibernation are significant, and will bear comparative 
reading with Mr. Marlatt's paper in this number on the same subject. 
Reviews of Entomological Publications.— One of the features of the pre- 
vious volumes of Insect Life was the publication of many reviews of 
experiment station reports and bulletins and other papers bearing upon 
economic entomology, under the head of " Special Notes," and the inser- 
tion under " General Notes "of other reviews of papers for the most 
part not of especial economic bearing, but of general interest either 
popularly or to the special class of readers interested in scientific work 
in entomology. At the same time another division of the Department 
of Agriculture, the Office of Experiment Stations, has been issuing a 
most useful publication entitled Experiment St ition Record, which has 
been devoted entirely to abstracts of the publications of the different 
experiment stations in this country, and to short notes derived from 
foreign publications of a similar character. This Experiment Station 
