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Psyche 4:116, 1883.

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116 psm. [November-December 1SS3.
Susceptible to the world's praise, he shrank from its censure, which alone may be given as a reason for his never having named a species, or, to use his own words, helped to mix up the nomenclature.
Of his labors only those who were inti-
mately associated with him will ever know how untiring and persistent-even methodi- cally so-were his efforts. For years, all the available moments of daylight, "out of office hours," were given to engraving the copper plates; the evenings were devoted to writing, while into that uncertain limit 'twixt bed- time and the time for blowing out the candle, were crowded all his mental recreation,
reviewing of new books, reading the maga- zines and the Herald, or, sometimes, even a popular novel.
Whether his work will ever be given to the world or not, in its entirety-despite the efforts of some to belittle it-it is simply a colossal encyclopaedia of American entomol- ogy, comprising names, derivations from the Latin or Greek, and synonyms of thousands of species of insects, with histories, food- plants, remedies, habitat, etcl., a library in itself, complete in detail, and comprehensive in inception to a wonderful degree. It is now in the possession of the United States government, and its great size will doubtless be the chief obstacle in the way of its publi- cation.
CHARLES RICHARDS DODGE.
The complete set of illustrations comprises 273 quarto plates with 6179 figures, engraved on copper and covering the following subjects :-
Plates. Figures.
Lepidoptera .- . '38 2634
Coleoptera
49 1627
Diptera
13 SW
Hemiptera
'6 4.64
Hymenoptera 0 346
Orthoptera
18 281
Neuroptera
7 92
Cotton and its insects 22 215
Only 15 complete copies (author's proofs) of the work are in existence, six of which are in Europe and nine in this country. In general not more than 50 copies of any work were printed, the text being litho- graphed from the author's manuscript.
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB,
13 APRIL 1883.-The gznd meeting of the
Club was held at 19 Brattle Square, Cam- bridge, 13 April 1883. In the absence of the President, Mr. Hayward was chosen Chair- man. Five members were present.
Mr. S. H. Scudder showed a collection of colored figures of North American coleo- ptera, hymenoptera and diptera, drawn by Maj. LeConte, and now belonging to Dr. J. L. LeConte.
Mr. G. Dimmock read a paper on "The
cocoons of Cioms scro///ulwiae."
The co-
coons of this European species of curculioni- due imitate the fruit of Scrofkularia nodosa. A sprig of Scro/hlaria, with cocoons of
Cionms upon it, was shown. [The paper will appear in Psyche, v. 3.1
Mr. S. H. Scudder called attention to B. N. Peach's paper, entitled, "On some fossil myriapods from the lower old red sandstone of Forfarshire" (Proc. Roy. phys. soc-
[Edinb.], 1881-1882, p. 177-188, pi. 2) in which two fossil myriapods from the devonian of Scotland are described.
These two myria-
pods (Kamjecaris forfarensis and Archides- mws macnicoli) are probably the oldest insects known.
WE HAVE received the first seven numeros of the Practical naturalist, a monthly which Ward and Riley have started at Bradford, England. It consists of twelve octavo pages monthly, neatly printed and in a tasty cover, at the remarkably low price of is. 6d.[37&c. ] (postpaid) to the United States, or Canada. The publication is "devoted to the assistance and encouragement of lovers of nature," and contains interesting original notes on ento- mological subjects.
The editors ought, how-
ever, to exercise more care in proof-reading. The International news company, of New
York, are American agents for the sale of this paper.




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