224 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, '04 



Mr. Francis X. Williams stated that he found the weather 

 very cold in June at Echo L,ake, Shasta County, California. 

 Took a number of Carabidae and Buprestidae. A few Lepidop- 

 tera Thccla dumetorum, Lyc&na podarce, and Sphinx pcr- 

 clegans. The country is rocky above the Coniferous belt, the 

 Manzanitas predominating. Chionobas were taken there. 



Miss Julia Wright exhibited a box of Tasmanian Coleoptera 

 and F. W. Nunenmacher Hylotmpes ligneus and Polycaon sp. 



F. E. BLAISDELL, M. D., Secretary. 



A regular meeting of the Entomological Section of the Chi- 

 cago Academy of Sciences was held April 21, 1904. Eleven 

 members present. Mr. Kwiat donated a small box of miscel- 

 laneous insects including some of his captures at Osborn, Ind., 

 on April lyth. 



The subject of the evening a talk on Fossil Insects, by Prof. 

 S. W. Williston followed. He gave a resume of the introduc- 

 tion and distribution of fossil insects, the conditions of fossili- 

 zation, and the relationships of the early forms. His remarks 

 were illustrated by specimens from the Carboniferous of Mazon 

 Creek, from the Solenhofen beds of Bavaria, and from the 

 Eocene of the Rocky Mountains. He expressed regret that 

 so few students of entomology have become interested in fossil 

 insects, a most fertile and largely unworked field, especially in 

 America. Fossil insects he has found to be much more widely 

 distributed than is generally believed, and although the field 

 is one of peculiar difficulties, is sure to be rich in results. 



ALEXANDER KWIAT, Recorder. 



Rev. Fr. Jerome Schmitt. 



It is with great regret that we announce the death of the 

 Rev.- Father Jerome Schmitt of Beatty, Penna. The deceased 

 was a Professor in St. Vincent College. He was born in Neu- 

 hausen, Wuertemberg, Germany, May 30. 1857. A more ex- 

 tended notice with portrait will appear in September NEWS. 



