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concerned, as well as supplying additional information which could otherwise be ob¬ 
tained only after much sacrifice of time and effort. To the amateur, the entomologi¬ 
cal beginner, the field naturalist, the economic entomologist, the cytologist, and others 
who may be dealing with Orthopteran material, but are not specialists in the group, a 
work such as the present one ought to be of the greatest service. The reviewer 
vividly recalls the help and inspiratio n which in his earlier studies of Orthoptera he 
derived from the use of Professor Blatchley’s Orthoptera of Indiana, which in spite 
of its limited applicability was the only work of a comprehensive nature obtainable 
at the time. The present work with its inclusion of the entire eastern fauna and its 
“up-to-dateness” is naturally vastly superior to the earlier work on the Indiana fauna, 
and the reviewer therefore feels himself justified in predicting for it an increasing 
popularity and a wide field of usefulness in arousing interest in Orthoptera or in sub¬ 
jects connected with them. 
There is one error in the book to which the reviewer desires to call attention, as it 
is possible that he may be partly responsible for it. On page 558 the record credited 
to the reviewer from Morristown, N. J., should be Moorestown, N. J. This error 
may have been typographical, or it may have been due to a misreading of the 
reviewer’s label attached to the specimen sent to Professor Blatchley. 
Henry Fox 
Current Notes 
Conducted by the Associate Editor 
Dr. E. D. Ball, state entomologist of Iowa, was appointed June 12 by President 
Wilson as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. 
Major General William C. Gorgas, who was appointed a member of a commission 
sent to West Africa to investigate sanitary conditions, suff ered a stroke of apoplexy 
in London, May 31 and died July 3. 
At the North Carolina State College, Mr. Herbert Spencer has been promoted 
from instructor to assistant professor of Zoology and Entomology and Mr. J. H. 
Williams from assistant to instructor in Zoology and Entomology. 
Professor Z. P. Metcalf, professor of Zoology and Entomology, North Carolina 
State College, and Entomologist, North Carolina Experiment Station, was elected 
President of the North Carolina Academy of Science at the last annual meeting. 
Professor Herbert Osborn of the Ohio State University will spend two months at 
the Forest Camp of the New York State Forestry School, located at Cranberry Lake 
in the Adirondack forest, investigating forest insects, expecially Hemiptera of the 
region. 
The honorary degree of Doctor of Science was conferred upon Wilmon Newell, 
president of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, and Plant Com¬ 
missioner of Florida, by Iowa State College at its semi-centennial celebration in con¬ 
nection with commencement in June. 
Early in May W. H. Lyne, provincial inspector at Vancouver, B. C. found some 
suspicious looking larvae in the soil surrounding the roots of maple and Thuya seed¬ 
lings from Japan. The larvae were forwarded to Mr. J. J. Davis in charge of the 
Japanese Beetle Investigations in New Jersey, for identification. Mr. Davis reported 
them as not being the larvae of the Japanese beetle but a closely allied species. 
Dr. L. O. Howard attended the Imperial Entomological Conference held in London, 
early in June. Nature states that “much gratification was felt and expressed at the 
presence for the first two days of Dr. L. O. Howard, entomologist of the U. S. Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. His brief pointed remarks at some of the discussions were much 
appreciated; he deplored some recent attempts to destroy “entomology” as a specific 
