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NOTES. 



We have much pleasure in recording that on the 20th of April last 

 the Degree of " Doctor Philosophiae Materialis" was conferred (honoris 

 causa) upon Baron Charles Robert Osten Sacken, by the University of 

 Heidelberg. This recognition of an Entomologist who has done such 

 eminent service in North America will, we are sure, be very gratifying to 

 our readers. 



Mr. C. H. Tyler Townsend, of the Agricultural College, Las Cruces, 

 New Mexico, has gone on a field trip by wagon to the Grand Canon of 

 the Colorado, in Arizona, and expects to be away till the middle of 

 August. 



The Royal Society of Canada held its Annual Meeting in Ottawa on 

 the 31st of May and two following days. The sessions were well attended, 

 and many papers of much value and interest were read. A committee 

 was appointed to investigate the condition and prospects of the marine 

 fisheries of the Dominion. The Rev. Dr. Bethune, President of the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario, was elected a Fellow. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



The British Nocture and their Varieties, by G. W. Tutt, F E. S.: 

 Vol. II., London, Swan, Sonnenschein & Co.: 1892. 

 The second volume of Mr. Tutt's work is equally carefully compiled 

 with the first, already noticed in these pages. It deals with Guenee's 

 " family " Noctuidcp., a group in which the varieties of the species are 

 numerous — not always easy to seize or characterize. By relying 

 apparently on the incorrect statements of Butler, Mr. Tutt refers our 

 North American Agr. tiirris and texana as varieties of Agrotis saucia. 

 The first, as shown by Smith, is probably the Agr. ochrogaster of Guene'e, 

 whose description was unidentified by me ; the second is undoubtedly a 

 distinct species, differing structurally somewhat also, from saucia. This 

 volume of Mr. Tutt's is a most useful compilation, showing great industry 

 and the marks of a careful research into the literature of the subject. I 

 can heartily commend it to the attention of specialists. 



Aug. R. Grote. 



Mailed July 4th. 



