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logical Club" publishes a monthly magazine, entirely devoted to 

 Lepidoptera. The Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences has issued three 

 handsome volumes chiefly devoted to studies on our moths. In Cam- 

 bridge, Avhere Harris lived and studied, a very useful journal " Psy. 

 che " appears, while in London, Canada, Mr. Saunders edits " The 

 Canadian Entomologist " in monthly parts. The various State ento- 

 mologists publish yearly reports, and the Department of the Interior 

 has published valuable monographs and papers relating to our moths 

 in the publications of the geological survey. The great work which has 

 been done in the United States in science has helped also the increase 

 of information upon this comparatively small branch of natural his- 

 tory. I should have mentioned the ladies first, but it is not out of 

 politeness that the conscientious historian records the services to sci- 

 ence of Mrs. Eliza Bridgham, of New York ; Mrs. C. H. Fernald, of 

 Orono, Maine ; and Miss Mary Murtfeldt, of St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. 

 Bridgham's extensive collection, commenced under the eye of Agassiz 

 himself, is a model of useful collecting for scientific purposes. The 

 species are not represented by single individuals, but the varieties of 

 each species, and a sufficient number of duplicates to allow of the 

 study of the structure and changes, are all carefully placed and la- 

 beled. Years of patient and careful toil have their reward in the 

 most interesting local collection, from a scientific stand-point, I have 

 yet seen. 



In Europe our moths have been described and studied by two 

 French scientists, MM. Boisduval and Guenie. In Germany, Professor 

 Zeller and Dr. Speyer, together with Herr Moeschler and the lamented 

 and talented Viennese lepidopterist Julius Lederer, have published in- 

 teresting studies upon our North American fauna. In England, the 

 late Mr. Walker accomplished less satisfactory work in the precincts 

 of the British Museum, and is now succeeded by Mr. Arthur G. But- 

 ler, whose work merits all praise. But our best incentive to the study 

 of our moths has been afforded by the example of Lord Walsingham. 

 It is ten years ago since his lordship visited the United States, where, 

 unlike many of his countrymen who come to hunt buffalo, he went 

 West to hunt moths. Lord Walsingham visited California and Ore- 

 gon, and camped out like a true hunter. While his companions took 

 the rifle, he handled the entomological net, and to such good effect 

 that science has been the gainer by hundreds of new species, and a 

 much clearer general knowledge of the subject than before existed. 

 The delicate operation of setting his tiny captures, Lord Walsingham 

 accomplished successfully even on horseback, as the camp was shifted 

 from place to place quite a feat, when it is recollected that the tiny 

 specimens, many not a quarter of an inch in expanse of wing, require 

 a steady hand and the most favorable conditions to be successfully 

 prepared for the cabinet. This memorable trip of Lord Walsingham's 

 had the result of directing the attention of our collectors to the rich- 



