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illness of nearly six months. There she was born on the 3rd 

 of April, 1841, on the beautiful estate overlooking the Hud- 

 son which had been owned by her family for four generations. 

 Her whole life had been devoted to the study of Lepidoptera 

 and, although she published nothing herself, her work lives 

 after her in the writings of W. H. Edwards, Prof. A. S. Pack- 

 ard and others,, particularly in illustrations of the larval 

 stage of various butterflies and moths, for she was a very 

 clever artist. 



It was she who worked out the curious life-history of 

 Feniseca tarquinius Fabr., the larvae of which feed upon the 

 mealy bugs that inhabit the alder. She also was among the 

 first to hybridize the Saturniidae. 



Her sister, Miss Charlotte A. Morton, the sole surviving 

 member of her immediate family, writes me as follows: "At 

 your request I have written out briefly a short account of 

 my sister's last days, but no one knows hoV patiently she 

 bore the great suffering entailed by her illness. During the 

 late summer of 1919, she began to suffer from the illness 

 which afterward ended her life. Her ankles became swollen 

 and gaVr; her much pain and she grew very weak and thin 

 and seemed in many ways older than her years. About the 

 middle of December, she became too ill to do anything, 

 tho up to this time she had made hundreds of picture 

 puzzles for sick soldiers. Almost the last thing she did was 

 to pack one of these for a sick friend. Altho carefully 

 attended by her nurses and myself she grew rapidly worse, 

 suffering greatly until the end." 



An account of Miss Morton's early life and entomological 

 studies will be found in the March, 1917, number of this 

 publication. 



She was almost the last of that brilliant group of Ento- 

 mologists who did so much for this fascinating study in the 

 latter half of the past century. 



H. H. NEWCOMB, Pasadena, California. 



