286 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., '19 The Bees of the Rocky Mountain National Park (Hymenop.). By T. D. A. COCKEREI.L, Boulder, Colorado. A large area in the most beautiful and interesting part of the Colorado Rocky Mountains has recently been set aside as a National Park. To this playground come many thousands of people every summer to enjoy the relatively cool climate, the mountain scenery, the plant and animal life. Mr. Enos Mills, of Longs Peak Inn, has .written a number of excellent popular books, describing the country and giving his observa-tions on the habits of bears, beavers and other animals. He has tried for many years to stimulate an intelligent interest in nature, while at the same time curbing that spirit of de-struction which leads people to shoot the animals and pull up plants in a wholesale and reckless manner. Occasionally someone breaks the rules, but on ihe whole the behavior of visitors to the Park, at least in the vicinity of Longs Peak-Inn, is excellent. The multitude, coming primarily for rest and recreation, finds itself in a new kind of school, where fresh impressions and ideas are received every hour. One must be extraordinarily dull not to return from such a holi-day with new intellectual interests as well as increased physi-cal vigor. The Park is new, and awaits development in vari-ous directions. One of the principal items on the program should be a Natural History Survev. The intensive and sci-entific study of such an area would produce results of the greatest interest to all biologists, and would make possible many interpretations of natural phenomena instructive to ordi-nary non-scientific visitors. The indiscriminate collecting of specimens should not be encouraged, but materials must be gathered in a systematic manner to determine the character and distribution of the biota. We should have a committee or commission to carry on the undertaking after the manner of the Clare Island Survey, the results of which have been published by the Royal Irish Academy. Following the tech-nical investigations, the general results and more interesting
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