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428 his daughter gave their services gratuitously. The experiment was regarded with great interest, and more than sixty ladies, "representing the culture and intelligence of the city," began practical designing and carving. The class grew and numbered one hundred and even more for years. Ninety-five per cent of the pupils were women. Etching and hammered metal work were soon added to the studies, and china painting was taken up in 1875. In the fall of that year a considerable sum of money was raised by gift and the sale of beautiful examples of china painting, which went to the fund for the erection of the Woman's Pavilion of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. More than one hundred specimens of china painting were included in the Cincinnati school exhibit at Philadelphia. No woman's product, distinctively American, has perhaps attained such repute as the Rockwood pottery of Cincinnati. "Its celebrity is due to varied causes. Excellence in material, form, firing, and glaze are points of superiority necessary to success, but that which has mainly contributed to its renown is unquestionably its realistic style of decoration," which "appeals to a newly awakened intelligence which appreciates original, careful, and truthful studies from Nature."

An Ethnological Storehouse.—An "ethnological storehouse" is urged by Prof. W. J. Flinders Petrie as necessary by reason of the impossibility of preserving more than a small portion of the material for anthropology in the very limited area of London or town museums. This leaves only two alternatives—the destruction of material which can never be replaced, illustrative of modern races now fast disappearing, and ancient races as revealed by excavation; or the storing of such materials accessible in a locality and a manner which shall yield the greatest possible storage space for a given expenditure. Such a repertory might be solely anthropological, including an example of every variety of object of human work of all ages, or it might be extended to zoölogy, mineralogy, and geology. The least to be expected from such a place would be to store the surplus objects which can not find place in existing museums. Its greatest development, however, would be to form a systematic collection of man's work, ancient and modern, reserving to existing museums such objects as illustrate the subject best to the general public, and such as need the protection due to their market value; and these could be properly represented in the repository collection by photographs. If fully developed, such a repository would become a center for study and higher scientific education. The author proposed a site of five hundred acres within easy reach of London, on which buildings could be erected as needed. The features in favor of the project and against it were discussed in the British Association, and some substitute propositions were offered; but Prof. Petrie pronounced the last mere palliatives, which did not touch the broad view.

Insect Enemies of the Grape.—An interesting article by C. L. Marlatt on the Principal Enemies of the Grape has recently appeared in the Year Book of the United States Department of Agriculture. The rapid growth of the vine industry in this country and the increasing cultivation of the less vigorous European grapes have combined to make the above subject one of considerable commercial importance. Nearly two hundred different insects have already been listed as occurring on the vine in this country; few of these, however, are very serious enemies, being either of rare occurrence or seldom numerous. The principal enemies of the grape-grower are the grape phylloxera, the grapevine fidia, both chiefly destructive to the roots; the cane borer, destructive particularly to the young shoots; the leaf hopper, the flea beetle, rose chafer with its allies, and leaf folder, together with hawk moths and cut worms, and the grape-berry moth, the principal fruit pest. The extent of the loss that frequently results from the ravages of these insects is something enormous. The phylloxera, when at its worst, had destroyed in France some 2,500,000 acres of vineyards, representing an annual loss in wine products of the value of $150,000,000, and the French Government had expended up to 1895 in phylloxera work over $4,500,000, and remitted taxes to the amount of $3,000,000 more. The leaf defoliators, as the rose chafer and flea beetle, frequently destroy or vastly injure the crops over large districts, and the little leaf