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PSYCHE.
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. culture) ; and must also pass, with di~tin- guished excellence, a special examination WORCESTER, MASS, has a new scientific
upon the results of an investigation of one or society. the Zoological club of Worcester, of more special subjects to which he has devoted which Mr. F. G. Sanborn is president.
an amount of work equivalent to two hours a term for two years.
The subject for 1884 is to be selected from MR. D. W. CO~JILLETT, a‰ Anaheim,
the o,,ow ing
California, has in view the preparation of a fa-) The internal anatomv of the larva of monograph of the dipterous family bihiaai- dae.
MR. WILLIAM BUCKLER. who has described
the early stages of a large number of British lepidoptera, died 9 Jan. 1884, at Lumley House, Emsworth, Hants. in hie; seventieth year.
IT MAY interest entoinologistu to learn
that the newly organized American orsiithol- ogists' union have a committee to consider whether the English sparrow (Passer domes- /icw.<) is on the whole beneficial or injurious to agriculture. The committee has issued a circular asking answers to questions on the subject.
AT A meeting to which the enton~ologists of Washington and Baltimore were invited, held at the house of Dr. C: V. Riley, in Washington, D. C., on the evening of 29
February r88+ arid presided over by Rev. Dr. John G. Morris, of Baltimore, a reeoln- tion was adopted unanimously to establish an entomological society in Washington and
vicinity, and a committee was appointed to draw up the necessary regulations and to call ;I future meeting for organization.
B : PICKMAN MANX, Secretary.
THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY offers to its stu- dents "final honors" in entomology, as in several other subjects, and under the follow- ing conditions, which we extract from "The Cornell university register 1883-84," p. 1 I I :- Entomology.-The candidate must have
passed, with an honorable average, the regu- lar examinations in the subjects of zofilogy (vertebrate and invertebrate j, microscopic technology, botany (the elementary course, including field-work), and entomology (the general course, as laid down in the fioplio- more and junior y~v^ in the course in aeri- the ~oqdalits cornutus inn.
(b)
The insects injurious to woolen goods
in the United States.
(c) The insects infesting apple trees at Ithaca.
(4
The insects injurious to wheat in the
north-eastern part of the United States, NEW SCIENTIFIC journals are springing up with about the same prolificacy, and with. almost the same prospect of long life, as is the case with French political newspapers. We have before us the third numero of
"Random notes on natural history" publish- ed by Sonthwick and Jencks. of Providence, R. I., from which we discover the existence of a Rhode Island entomological bociety. From the first (March) numero of "Prob-
ienw of nature," to be published semi-month- Iy at New York, under the editorship of H. P. Phiibrook, we learn still less. We learn that Mr. Winfrid A. Steams, of Amherst,
Mass., proposes to start a monthly journal, to be devoted to the interests of Ma&saciiu- aetts natural history, and to be called the 'Bulletin of the natural history of the state of Massacliusetts." We can decide better upon the merits of this bulletin with a long name, after we see a copy of it. Its price is one dollar a year, and it is approved and aided by the officers of the State agricultural college at Amherst.
Many enthusiasts wish practically to pro- mote the natural sciences by publications, they can do better by increasing the effective- ness of established journals than by wasting their energies in overcoming the friction of numerous new machines, for each separate journa! requires as much unproductive labor in its merely mechanical working as all coin- bined would need, while the same energy
concentrated on one working machine would all be utilized.




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12'2 ~ C ~ . [March 1884.
THE JANUARY numero of the Deutscke r
bienenfrennd contains an interesting article on Professor R. Leuckart of Leipzig univer- sity, with special reference to his contribu- tiow to our knowledge of bees. The article, which is accompanied by a full-page portrait of Prof. Leuckart, was written by Dr. Oskar K'rancher, lately a student in Leuckart's laboratory. As Leuckart, who is now sixty years old, has done much excellent work foi- enton~ology in the midst of his extensive zoological investigations, and has been
the teacher of many young zoologists wno have studied the anatomy of insects, I may be pardoned for translating a part of what Dr. Krancher truly says of the secret of his ability as an educator. "One needs only to be present at a single lecture to discover the reason for this extraordinarily large atten- dance. Animated diction, eminent gift of eloquence, pleasant, flexible tenor voice, knack at experimenting, finally the gift of teaching and explaning in the clearest man- ner, these faculties combine to make Leukart one of the best instructors of Leipzig univer- sity." "In his laboratory he proves himself the true 'friend' of the students, now and then taking active hold in the tasks of the several workers." G: D.
SOCIETY MEETINGS.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Cambridge
Entomological Club will be held at 7.4 j p. m., on the days following :-
12 Oct. 1883. 14 Mar. 1884.
g Nov. c' 11 Apr. ''
14 Dec. i' Q May c 6
11 Jan. 1884. 13 June *'
8 Feb.
G. DIMMOCK, Secretary.
THE NEW YORK Entomological Club meets
twice monthly, except in June, July and
~ueust, but no special date is fixed for each meeting.
HENRY EDWARDS, Secretary.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomo-
logical Section of the Boston Society of' Natural History will be held at N. W. corner of Berkeley and Boylston Sts., Boston, Mass. at 7.45 p. m., on the days following :-
24 Oct. 1883.
27 Feb. 1884.
28 Nov. ' 26 Mar.
26 Dec. 'L 23 Apr. "
23 Jan. 1884. 28 May '<
EDWARD BURGESS, Secretary.
THE RE~~LAR'llleetitl~~ of the Entomo-
logical Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, Pa., will be held at S. W. corner of 19th and Race Sts., on the days following :-
12 Oct. 1883.
14 Mar. 1884.
g Nov. " 11 Apr. "
14 Dec. " 9 May '<
11 Jan. 1884. 13 June "
8 Feb.
. JAMES H. RIDIJSTGS, Recorder..
THE SEMI-ANNUAL meetings of the Ameri-
can Entomological Society will be held at S. W. corner of 19th and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., on the days following :-
10 Dec. 1883.
g June 1884.
JAMES H. RIDINGS, Recording' Secretary.
THE REGULAR monthly meetings of the
Montreal Branch of the Entomological Soci- ety of Ontario, will be held at Montreal, Qye., Canada, on the days following :-
2 Oct. 1883.
5 Feb. 1884.
6 Nov. " 4 Mar. 'L
4 Dec. " I Apr. c c
8 Jan. 1884. 6May "
G. J. BOWLES, Secretary.
THE MONTHLY meetings of the 13roo:Jyn
Entomological Society will be held in the rooms of Wright's Business College, Broad- way, corner of Fourth Street, Brooklyn,
E. D., the last Saturday of each month ex- cept July and August.
F. G. SCHAUPP, Secretiiiy.
No. 117-118 were issued 8 April 1884.




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