VOL. Iv. | John Lora Curtis. 185 
Jumping Spider, in Zoe, vol. iii, P- 332. He had previ- 
ously prepared an article on a species of 7) heridion, of about 
fifteen or twenty ordinary octavo pages, illustrated with over 
fifty figures, mostly colored, and finished with great care. This 
_ contains, beside the description of the little spider, its life history 
thro’ two generations, each represented by many individuals, 
noting at least six fairly distinct varieties. ‘The publication of 
this article has been delayed by the difficulty in reproducing the 
colored plates. 
Rev. Henry C. McCook, the distinguished araneologist of 
Philadelphia, in writing of Mr. Curtis says: ‘‘A little while 
before I had prepared material for a new species of spider which 
I had dedicated to him, attaching to it his name. ‘The drawings 
of this are done, and the engraving of Pachygnatha Curtist is 
already upon the plate of the lithographer.”’ 
His interest in spiders was united to a lively interest in other 
branches of natural history and social progress. His aim was to 
prepare a descriptive list of the spiders of California. When he 
foresaw his early death he hoped some stronger hand would con- 
tinue and finish the work. J. D. L. 
_ A NEw STaTIon FOR ASPLENIUM SEPTENTRIONALE. Mr. 
Brandegee sends specimens from San Pedro Martir, a high moun- 
tain nearly east of San Quintin, in Baja California. This is five 
or six hundred miles west of the nearest previously recorded 
station, which is, I think a mountain in New Mexico, called Ben 
Moore, where Dr. J. M. Bigelow detected it in 1851. Mr. Charles 
Wright collected it probably at the same place a little later. 
Next, Hall & Harbour found it in Colorado, and Mr. Bran- 
degee obtained it later in the Grand Cafion of the Arkansas. 
In the Old World its range is from Great Britain to the 
Himalaya Mountains. It is strange it has never been found in 
the eastern part of North America. D. C. EaTon. 
