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or otherwise, shall not be loaned or taken from the building in 

 which the collection is kept. 2. Unique types shall not be 

 loaned nor removed from the building, but duplicate cotypes 

 may be loaned when specially authorized by the Executive 

 Committee of the Society. 3. No specimens belonging to the 

 Society, nor to collections under its care, shall be loaned, ex- 

 cept by special permission of the Executive Committee. 4. No 

 specimens belonging to private collections on deposit with the 

 Society shall be loaned nor removed from the building without 

 the consent of the owner and of the Executive Committee. 



HENRY SKINNER, Secretary. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Newark Entomological 

 Society was held on Sunday, October i3th, at Turn Hall. The 

 meeting was called to order by President Buchholtz, nine 

 members being present. Messrs. Kemp and Buchholtz on a 

 collecting trip for caterpillars, September 8th, gathered over 

 800 specimens of various species. 



Mr. Bischoff and Mr. Stortz reported capturing 18 Pasima- 

 chus elongatus and Schizogenus ferrugineus on Staten Island. 



Mr. Buchholtz reported capturing a female specimen of 

 Pamphila massasoit at Elizabeth, N. J., and also good success 

 in rearing Catocala larva of local species. 



Mr. Bischoff was the receipient of 3 specimens of Bostrychns 

 capicanus from Mr. Stortz. 



GEORGE LUCCARENI, Secretary. 



Hon. P. C. TRUMAN. 



Philetus Clark Truman was born in Preston, Chenango Co., 

 N. Y. , December 20, 1841, and died October 27, 1901. 



His early education was obtained in the district schools and 

 at the Deruyter Institute at Deruyter, N. Y. Since that time 

 he has gained most of his education by private study. In 1 856 

 he left home and went to Wisconsin, where he taught for 

 several years in Rock, Dane and Green Counties, and read law 

 during the intervals of teaching. In July, 1862, he went to 

 Magnolia, Harrison County, Iowa, where he married Miss 



