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‘Mrs, Thomas L. Casey has personally given to the Museum a generous 
sum of money for the purchase of a binocular microscope to be associated 
with the Casey Collection of Coleoptera,: for the use of students who consult 
this collection, A more than. usually complete outfit has been ordered, with 
several new features, An important part of it is a complete series of 
Objectives, including several of higher power than are at present in the 
Maseum equipment. The money donated for‘this purpose had been received by 
Mrs. Casey in the form of Christmas presents from her busbar od,and it was 
her wish to use it to provide a special microscope which would be always 
available for those studying there. 
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LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEW BOOKS 
Berlese, Antonio, . ; | 
Gli insetti. v. 2, fase, 42-61, pp. i-x and 849-992 (end of vs 2, Vita 
e costumi con particulare riguardi agl insotti intcressanti). Milano, 
Hditrice libraria, 1925, 
Catalogue of Indian ins nia ‘Calcutta, Gov't. of India Cahtral Publications 
Branch, 1924. Pt. 4. Trypetidae (Trypanidae), by R. Senior White, 
35 pp. Part 5, Nitudulidae, by S, .N. Chatterjec. 40 pp.- 
Ceballos, Gonzalo, 
Bstudios sobre Ichneumonidos de Espana I. Subfamilia Joppinae (Tribus 
JOppini, Amblytelini, Listrodromini)... Madrid, 1924, 335 pp. illus. 
(Junta para ampliacion de estudios e investigaciones cientificas. 
Trabajos del Museo nacional de ciencias naturales. Serie zoologica 50.) 
Chemical reference and industrial directory of sources of production, distri- 
bution and supply of the most-used chemicals and industrial raw procucts,. 
New York, N. Y., Commercial, 1925, 314 pp. 
Chupp, Charles, 
Manual of vegetable garden diseases. New York, The Macmillan Company, 
1925. 647 pp. illus, (Rural manuals, ed. by L. He Bailey.) Feferences 
interspersed. 
Czerny, Leander, 
Monographie der Helomyziden (Dipteren)... Wien, Verlag der Zoologisch- 
botanischen Gesellschaft, 1924. 166 pp., plate. (Abhandlungen der 
Zoologisch-botanischen Roseliechat't in Wien Bd. XV, Hft. 1.) 
Douglas, C. EB 
Rice —- its cultivation and preparation, London, Sir Isaac Patnam & sons, 
ltd., 19247 143 pp., illus. The enemies of rice and methods of com 
bating them, pp. 113-123. 
Imms, A.D. 
A general textbook of entomology. London, Metmen & Co., ltd., 1925. 
698 pp., illus. "Literature" at ends of chapters. 
