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Finally, we may call attention to the very interesting general chapter on the 

 Lycaenidae at the beginning of the volume, which is of more than usual interest 

 and rather exceptional in a work of this kind. The work itself must serve a 

 very useful purpose ; its execution is remarkably even and shows great skill and 

 balance on the part of the author. There are half a dozen plates like those of 

 the former volumes and executed by the same parties, excepting that two of 

 them are chromo-lithographs, but we could wish that some plates of the early 

 stages might have been added, and the direct purposes of the book for the Indian 

 student would have been served by others giving structural details. — s. H. s. 



Manual of Injurious Insects and Methods of Prevention. By Eleanor 

 A. Ormerod, Second Edition, 1890. 



The enlarged and thoroughly revised edition of Miss Ormerod's Manual of 

 Injurious Insects which has lately appeared, is a work of such importance to all 

 •engaged in agricultural pursuits, that it is thought well to place a notice of it in 

 our Annual Report so that such of our readers who have not seen it may know 

 of its publication. We feel confident that a perusal of this work would well re- 

 pay all those engaged in the cultivation of farm, orchard or garden crops. The 

 study of economic entomology has made great progress during the decade which 

 has elapsed since the appearance of the first edition of Miss Ormerod's Manual in 

 1881, and this progress is to a large measure due to the unceasing labours of this 

 talented lady. Her annual reports are eagerly looked for by thousands of farmers 

 in Great Britain and by scientific students in all parts of the world. They give 

 a concise account of the insect attacks which have occurred in the British Isles 

 during the year which has followed the issue of the previous report. A feature 

 of these reports is their practical nature, every attention being given to the best, 

 not the largest number of, remedies for each insect mentioned. This character is 

 also very manifest, as might have been expected, in this more important work of 

 Miss Ormerod's. There is no writer upon the practical science of combating the 

 ravages of insects which attack crops, in Australia, India, South Africa, the 

 United States, Canada, or elsewhere, who does not quote her opinion as the high- 

 est authority upon any subject which she has written about. This is due to the 

 careful and thorough manner in which all of her investigations are carried out. 

 In the last number of " Insect Life " issued by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture and edited by the highest living authorities upon economic entomo- 

 logy, the following complimentary notice of this work appears : — " On account of 

 its convenient size, admirable arrangement, plain language, and abundant illus- 

 tration, it is almost a model of what such a work should be." — " Miss 

 Ormerod's work cannot be too highly commended." 



Now the merits above enumerated are just the points which render this work 

 so valuable, for it is perfectly intelligible to anyone who can read, and thus 

 becomes almost indispensable to every farmer, gardener, or fruit grower, who 

 would carry on his work in the most successful manner. Nor is this the case in 

 England alone, where the work was written, for so many of the actual insects 

 treated are common as agricultural pests both in Europe and in North America, 

 and moreover the general principles recommended for the prevention of injury 

 are applicable all the world over. Besides this from the fact that most of our 

 most injurious insects are imported species, we know not at what moment any of 

 those so well treated of in this work, may not appear in our midst as a serious 

 iax upon our cultivated crops. The different kinds of attacks are arranged 

 alphabetically under the three headings, Food Crops, Forest Trees, and Fruit. 

 >Some new attacks not mentioned in the first edition and which appeared sub- 



