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fessional people. Many of the latter lost their all and have been obliged 

 to leave town. The mechanics and laborers will have more work than 

 they can attend to. In fact, many of the laborers are better cared for 

 than they have ever been before. This is due to the generosity of our 

 good friends throughout the world. It enabled the rest of us to get our 

 breath. Now retail stores are open, and we can begin to live somewhat 

 as we could before. 



Dr. Blaisdell will, I think, be able to remain in town and to continue 

 his work as before. Mr. Fuchs cannot expect any work for some time to 

 come from the Academy, but fortunately has his craft to rely upon. He 

 saved his tools and is already, so I am informed, hard at work. He is 

 still cheerful. For the benefit of those who wish to communicate with 

 the burned-out ones, I will give the addresses that I have procured : Mr. 

 Charles Fuchs, 2322 Bank St., Alameda, Cal.; Dr. F. E. Blaisdell, 1800 

 O'Farrell St., San Francisco ; Mr. James Cottle, 2117^ Bush St., San 

 Francisco ; California Academy of Sciences, 1806 Post St., San Francisco. 



None of our entomologists were injured and all hopeful for the future. 

 To all good friends and well-wishers, please give our most heartfelt 

 thanks. EDWIN C. VAN DYKE, 2112 Steiner St , San Francisco, Cal. 



DR. DVAR'S SQUARE DEALING. Readers of ENT. NEWS who have 

 seen a copy of the remarkable paper reviewed in the May number (page 

 181) will no doubt be interested to learn something about the circumstan- 

 ces which preceded its preparation and hurried publication. As soon as 

 Mr. Busck returned from his collecting trip to the West Indies last fall, 

 and turned over to me the specimens of mosquitoes collected, I at once 

 began separating the larvae and larval skins into species, intending after- 

 ward to associate them with the bred adults and then definitely identify 

 the various species ; in this way both the larvse and the adults would have 

 been identified with reasonable certainty. Dr. H. G. Dyar, however, to 

 whom had been promised the immature stages of the mosquitoes for 

 writing up for the Carnegie monograph, began to clamor for these, de- 

 manding that they be turned over to him at once, and so persistent and 

 vehement was he in his demands that an order was issued directing me 

 to immediately place this material in his possession. I was further 

 instructed to prepare a provisional list of the bred adults, which I did, 

 marking with a query those species that I was not certain of, and Dyar 

 was instructed to correct this list, indicating those cases, if there were 

 any, where I had confused two species under one name, etc., but this he 

 refused to do. Instead, he prepared and hurriedly published the paper 

 referred to, giving my tentative names but without a word of explanation 

 in regard to their being only provisional, although well aware of the fact 

 that they were so. Moreover, in several cases he has omitted the mark 

 of interrogation, while in others he has craftily transferred it from the 

 name of the species to that of the genus, thus intentionally giving the 

 false impression that it was the genus and not the species that I was in 

 doubt about. D. W. COQUILLETT. 



