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Mr. Schwarz said that Dr. Horn's original description and 

 figures were made from fragments only. He thought the speci 

 men exhibited was the first perfect specimen ever seen. Mr. 

 Pratt remarked that there are two specimens of this species in 

 the British Museum. 



- Mr. Johnson read the following paper : 



ISAAC P. TRIMBLE, ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGIST. 

 By W. G. JOHNSON. 



Isaac P. Trimble was born in 1802, of Quaker parentage, and 

 was educated for a surgeon. He was for a time connected 

 with the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, where he was 

 associated with Dr. Kirkbride, an eminent surgeon, in delivering 

 a course of lectures. Leaving Philadelphia in 1840, he went to 

 New York city, where he afterwards married, and continued his 

 practice as a surgeon until 1846. He then purchased a farm, 

 beautifully located on the Hudson River, near Cheviatt, and 

 moved with his family to that place. Here he became greatly 

 interested in fruit culture, and, as a natural consequence, on ac 

 count of his interest in original investigation, also in the insects 

 that affect fruit trees. He remained on this farm for about 

 ten years, raising and marketing fruit of a superior quality, an 

 enterprise which he found delightful and profitable. In 1856 he 

 moved with his family to Newark, New Jersey, to assume his 

 duties as an officer in the Custom House, a position which he 

 held until 1873. It was during this time that much of his 

 original entomological work was accomplished, outside of his 

 regular official duties. In 1873 he retired from active business 

 and professional work, residing almost continuously in New York 

 city until 1887. During this period he travelled considerably, 

 especially through those sections where fruit-culture is prominent. 

 The last two years of his life were spent at a beautiful country 

 residence near Cornwall on the Hudson, where he died in Sep 

 tember, 1889, at the age of 87. 



Trimble's passion for outdoor life seems to have increased as 

 his age advanced, as it was almost impossible to keep him from 

 taking long strolls into the woods and ravines alone during the 

 last two years of his life, even when he was physically unable to 

 do so. His eyesight was keen, and he coulcl read a newspaper, 

 even of the finest print, without the aid of glasses, after he had 

 passed his eighty-fifth birthday. He was wrapped up in nature, 

 and lived almost entirely in the orchards and fields, with fruits 

 and flowers, birds and insects. He was always the first to note 

 the first opening bud or blossom, heard the first chirp or song of 

 the returning bird, and saw the first insect of spring take flight. 



