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outlay. All these works, I am glad to say, will be found in our Society's library 

 and are available for the use of the members. 



Serial publications on North American entomology continue to be represented 

 by the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Philadelphia; 

 Psj/che, Cambridge. Mass. ; Entomologica Americana, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Insect 

 Life, Washington, D.O., and our own Canadian Entomologist. Another addition 

 has been made to the list this year by the issue of Entomological News and Pro- 

 ceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. The working entomologist can hardly do without any of these 

 publications ; each one occupies its own special field, and all are valuable and 

 interesting. Our own magazine, now in its twenty-second volume, continues to 

 be issued with regularity, and, I am happy to say, receives contributions from all 

 the most eminent entomologists in North America, and occasionally from others 

 in Europe. 



The study of economic entomology has been making vast strides during the 

 last few years, owing to the establishment of experimental agricultural stations 

 in all the States of the Union, and the appointment in many of them of a skilled 

 entomologist. The bulletins issued from these stations and the central depart- 

 ment at Washington are too numerous to mention in detail ; they are replete 

 with useful information and interesting records of experiments and observations. 

 That the work is eminently scientific is shown by the names of those employed, 

 for instance. Dr. Riley, Mr. Howard, Dr. Lintner, Professors Forbes, Cook, Smith, 

 Fernald, Webster, Weed. These names, and many others, are familiar to us all 

 aa men of distinction in their several localities and departments. 



In our own country much valuable work is being done by Mr. Fletcher, the 

 Dominion Entomologist at Ottawa, not only by his investigations and the pub- 

 lished results, but also by the addresses which he gives in different places to the 

 meetings of Farmers' Institutes. He is in this way diffusing throughout the 

 country a knowledge of friends and foes amongst insects, and the best modes of 

 encouraging the former and exterminating the latter. The result of his work 

 must in course of time be the saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the 

 farmers and fruit-growers of the Dominion. 



In England Miss Ormerod continues her unselfish devotion to the cause of 

 economic entomology. Her annual reports are full of very valuable information, 

 and have done much good in the mother land. It is gratifying to find that this 

 department of practical work is being developed also in other parts of the British 

 Empire. We have received a useful report on insect and fungus pests from the 

 Department of Agriculture at Brisbane, Australia, prepared b}^ Mr. Henry Tryon, 

 of the Queensland museum, and several numbers of Indian Museum Notes, pub- 

 lished at Calcutta by the Government of India Revenue and Agricultural Depart- 

 ment. These " Notes " are edited by Mr. E. G. Cotes, and contain a large number 

 of most interesting and valuable papers, both scientific and practical, illustrated 

 with excellent engravings. 



Before leaving this subject, I must not omit to mention the publication last 

 autumn of a bulletin on the " Mediterranean Flour-Moth " (Fphestia Kuhniella, 

 Zeller), prepared by Dr. Bryce, of Toronto, and issued by the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment of Ontario. It is an excellent pamphlet and contains just what one wants 

 to know about this new pest. The mischief referred to seems to have been 

 stamped out, at least I have not heard of any further cases of attack in this 

 province, and we may be quite certain that after the experience of last year, our 

 millers will keep a sharp look out for the pest, and deal with it promptly should 

 it show itself again. 



