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investigator of Nature. The student of Evolution has drawn 

 many of his most apt illustrations from the insect world. 

 The agriculturists and growers are beginning to wake up to 

 the fact that some knowledge of the science of Entomology 

 is necessary to them. Many a crop could have been saved if 

 the life history of the pest which was destroying it had 

 been known at the time. 



I have been much interested in reading in the Ento- 

 mologists' Monthly Magazine for the present month, that at 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass., a 

 course of six hours a week in Entomology is offered during 

 the summer term, its aim being to give a general knowledge 

 of insect anatomy and physiology, and a systematic review 

 of the whole group, taking as types, as far as possible, those 

 forms of economic interest to man, and at the same time 

 giving the life history of each species so taken and the 

 means of combating it. 



A knowledge of the insecticides and insecticide ma- 

 chinery and their use is given. 



An interesting feature of the course is the collection 

 which each student makes and arranges of the common 

 species which may be found in the College grounds and the 

 near-by region. 



A very full museum collection serves as an aid to 

 identification and arrangement. There is also a laboratory, 

 provided with tables, microscopes, re-agents and glass ware, 

 also a lecture room. The library comprises 2,500 works on 

 Entomology. 



Again I notice an advertisement emanating from the 

 School Board Offices in London, asking for insects of all 

 orders for the purpose of distribution for use in Natural 

 Science lessons in Elementary Schools. 



Every well-educated person now seems eager to know 

 something at least about the wonderful organic forms which 

 surround him. What a change from the temper of two or 

 three generations ago, when the Naturalist, especially the 

 Entomologist, was looked on as a harmless enthusiast. 



One of the questions of the day is that of the connection 

 between malarial fever and mosquitoes. It has now been 

 placed beyond a doubt that malaria is due to a parasite 

 belonging to the family Hoemobidae, passing the first stage 

 of its existence in the stomachs of certain mosquitoes, and by 

 the bites of the latter introducing it into the blood of man. 



The generic name of this particular kind of mosquito is 

 Anopheles, of which there are several species. 



