calendar year 1898, for example, sixty-one separate publications were issued by the different State experiment stations, either devoted entirely to matter on economic entomology, or containing articles upon the subject, the total number of pages on applied entomology reaching nearly 1400. During the same period nineteen separate publications on economic entomology were issued by the Department of Agriculture, containing a total of about 1000 printed pages." A notice of some of the principal workers is given, and excellent photographs of Asa Fitch, Townend Glover, T.W. Harris, B.D. Walsh, and C.V. Riley will be welcomed by many entomologists; while "Remedies" will be valued by the agriculturist.
Mr. T.S. Palmer has written "A Review of Economic Ornithology in the United States." The history of American ornithology may be traced back to the middle of the sixteenth century, though a great starting point may be established by the publication of Catesby's 'Nat. Hist, of Carolina, Florida,' &c, in 1731–43. A host of well-known names can be recalled since that time, but it appears to be only about the year 1850 that economic ornithology attracted attention. "As a result of fourteen years' work, the Biological Survey has brought together a collection of about 32,000 bird stomachs, of which some 14,000 have been examined. This article constitutes a fund of information respecting the destruction of birds by excessive egg collection, and by the demand for feathers established by feminine vanity.
This is really a lovely quarto volume, with its exquisite views of Alaskan lakes and scenery, and is a storehouse of information on many branches of economic ichthyology. A large section is devoted to "The Salmon and Salmon Fisheries of Alaska," and this portion is, apart from its zoological information, a practical guide to the waterways of the country. The account of "The Southern Spring Mackerel Fishery of the United States" is replete with interest, and is written by Mr. Hugh M. Smith. The schools of Mackerel usually approach the coast of the United
