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THE twenty-two annual volumes of Miss Ormerod's Reports are known to all students of agricultural entomology, and their usefulness as indispensable works of reference will be largely increased by the present compendium, which includes, in addition to the general index, separate indices of plants, animals and unclassified “hosts.” Miss Ormerod's preface contains remarks on the origin and method of the reports, notices of a few of the more important insects which have been dealt with, and miscellaneous observations. It is worthy of special note that she considers all birds which are even moderately insectivorous as beneficial to such an extent as to overbalance any mischief they may do in other ways, unless they are present in overwhelming numbers; but she especially excludes the house sparrow, which she denounces as a national evil.
General Index, by Robert New stead, F.E.S., Curator of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, to Annual Reports of Observations of Injurious Insects, 1877–1898.
By Eleanor A. Ormerod Met. Soc, &c. With Preface by the author. Pp. xii + 58. (Simpkin, 1899.)
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K., W. General Index, by Robert Newstead, F.E.S., Curator of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, to Annual Reports of Observations of Injurious Insects, 1877–1898. Nature 61, 126 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061126e0
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