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to number the pages of your Ms. as we can 

 do it better. Write botanical names and 

 names of places any old way. We know all 

 the botanical names and have become fa- 

 miliar with all localities, having lived in 

 each one. 



When you give the measurements of in- 

 sects, especially new species, you need not 

 write the figures plainly, as knowing every- 

 thing we can readily decipher them. The 

 names of all new and proposed species are 

 known to us in advance, and knowing them 

 your self it is not necessary to be particu- 

 lar about how you write them. When 

 writing us you need not be particular about 

 your name and address, as we can read 

 everything. If errors occur just blame us 

 and the printer. The printer, by the way, 

 is a wonder. He reads Russian, Chinese 

 and Sanscrit with greater facility than he 

 does English. The collecting season has 

 begun, so we may be able to forget the 

 editorial department for a time. 



P. S. — Don't forget to mix up exchange 

 notices and other matter for the news with 

 personal matter to the Editor. 



REMARKABLE BUTTERFLY STORIES. 



In an account of the funeral of Willis 

 A. Barchvell, the "Plymouth Chimes" 



( Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y) 

 has the following regarding the remarks 

 of Dr. Raymond at the funeral : 



"A strange thing happened once in 

 that old Montague street library, which 

 you all know so well. William Hamil- 

 ton Gibson — one of the bright, brave 

 souls of Plymouth Church — had been 

 working at his summer home in Con- 

 necticut, upon a magazine article about 

 butterflies and illustrating it with his own 

 exquisite drawings from life, but when 

 he had nearly finished it, he found to his 

 dismay that the most magnificent species 

 of all was no longer flying among the 

 New England hills. So, as a last resort, 

 he came to Brooklyn and sought in the 

 Brooklyn library an illustrated work 

 from which he might copy the picture he 

 needed. Mr. Barchvell entered sympa- 

 thetically into his desire and soon 

 brought down from its seclusion a great 

 folio of plates, which he laid upon the 

 table before his friend. Together they 

 turned the leaves until, to the artist's 

 joy, they found the page upon which, in 

 the size and coloring of life, the beauti- 

 ful creature was depicted, and over it, 

 in mutual delight, the lover of books and 

 the lover of all living things — lovers, 



- '-- . B 







THE BUTTERFLY CARVED ON THE MONUMENT 



