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the Volunteer, the international cup-winners for 1885, 1886, ami 

 1887 respectively. Mr. Burgess was an enthusiastic entomo- 

 logist and specialized in the Diptera. Strange to say, however, 

 he did little or no illustrative work in this order, in spite of the 

 fact that a great need of such illumination existed in those days. 

 Dr. S. H. Scudder states that Burgess not only made 1 7.> 

 drawings for his work on the butterflies, hut also made the dis- 

 sections and preparations from which these drawings were exe- 

 cuted. Mr. Burgess was an insect anatomist of great skill and 

 published several valuable papers on this subject. 



Among the most beautiful and skillfully drawn illustrations of 

 Lepidoptera that have appeared in any work relating to that 

 order in North America are those published in William Henry 

 Edwards' " Butterflies of Northeastern America and Canada." 

 These wonderful illustrations were drawn by a woman, Mrs. 

 Mary Peart, who has set a standard which it will be difficult for 

 the human hand ever to surpass. Their excellence is, of course, 

 due in part to the fine manner in which her drawings were repro- 

 duced, as the publication in which they occur is the most luxuri- 

 ous work on entomology that ever has appeared in this country. 

 Mr. Edwards states in the prefatory remarks to his various 

 volumes that Mrs. Peart's work began with plate VI, Part 2 of 

 the work. That she supervised the drawing of all the plates on 

 stone and made in all close to 1,000 figures for him in connection 

 with his studies of the butterflies. He also states that Mrs. 

 Peart aided in the rearing of the larval stages of the insects, 

 which she afterwards drew, first on paper and afterwards on 

 stone. Judging from the statement made by Mr. Edwards that 

 Philadelphia in 1868 was four days' journey from his home in 

 Coalburgh, W. Va., and that it was almost impossible to send 

 material for drawing there for that reason, one is led to suppose 

 that Mrs. Peart did her work in the former city. Dr. Henry 

 Skinner of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, in 

 answer to my letter of inquiry, has been kind enough to furnish 

 the following information: "I can not tell you much about Mrs. 

 Peart, although I knew her for many years. She lived near this 

 institution, and the first time I met her she came in with Mr. 

 \V. H. Edwards, who remarked that 'the American Entomo- 

 logical Society should make her an honorary life member, as she 

 had contributed more toward his work on American Rhopalo- 

 cera than he had.' She was a delightful woman; cultured, 

 refined and modest to a high degree. A good many years ago I 

 visited her home with the late Dr. James Fletcher, who greatly 

 admired her work and wished to meet her. She died in Phila- 

 delphia a few years ago and, if I remember correctly, was buried 

 in some other place." Mr. Edwards states in the preface to his 

 third volume that Mr. Edward Ketterer made the drawings for 



