222 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, '06 



Notes and Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 



OF THE GLOBE. 



THE entomological laboratories and collections at Stanford University 

 suffered practically no injury from the recent earthquake in California. 

 The Stanford buildings, which were wrecked, were the arch, church and 

 new museum, library and gymnasium, the latter two being in course of 

 erection. The various quadrangle buildings, dormitories, etc., were only 

 slightly injured. University work will begun again on August 23rd, the 

 regular date for the opening of the next college year. VERNON L. 

 KELLOGG. 



EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE NOTES FROM SAN FRANCISCO. I have been 

 collecting, as best I could, all information pertaining to the losses sustained 

 by our local entomological fraternity, with a view to having it published 

 in the ENT. NEWS. 



From the Academy there were saved simply the boxes containing the 

 types of the Coleoptera, Hemiptera and Hymenoptera. All else in our 

 department was lost. The Behr collection of Lepidoptera, our general 

 collection of insects, including all our types of Odonata, Arachnida, etc., 

 and our entire library. 



Of private collections, the greatest loss was that sustained by Mr. Chas. 

 Fuchs, he having saved only about twenty-two boxes of specimens, these 

 consisting of his generic collection of Coleoptera. All his books, I think, 

 were burned. Mr. James Cottle lost his entire collection of Lepidoptera 

 and all except one or two of his books. The Beverley Letcher collection 

 of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera and the library, which was stored in Mr. 

 Cottle's house, was also destroyed. I have heard that Mr. J. C. Hugue- 

 nin lost his collection. That would leave the collection of Mr. F. X. 

 Williams, which was in the unburned district, as the only good collection 

 of Lepidoptera in the city. The owner is still away on our Galapagos 

 Island Expedition, where he is, according to recent letters, doing splendid 

 work. Dr. F. E. Blaisdell had one of his two cases of Coleoptera over- 

 turned by the earthquake. This of course resulted in the mangling of 

 many of his specimens. All specimens of Eleodes loaned to him for pur- 

 poses of study, were uninjured. The collection of Coccidae belonging to 

 Mr. E. M. Ehrhorn, was, so far as I could learn, unharmed. My own 

 collection of Coleoptera was also unharmed. I simply lost all that was in 

 my down-town office. 



As a whole, our greatest loss will be our libraries, every big one in the 

 city being burned. The Academy of Science simply saved its records, 

 about one set of its own publications, and six other volumes. Our good 

 friends among the scientific institutions of the country could therefore be 

 of great assistance to us if they would reserve as complete a set of their 

 publications as possible for us until the time when one will have a proper 



