IOO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., '17 



of the plates of his famous work on the Lepidoptera. He told 

 her that unless he succeeded in selling his magnificent collec- 

 tion for $20,000 he would leave it to the British Museum. As 

 a matter of fact it was purchased after his death by the Field 

 Columbian Museum at Chicago. 



Miss Morton considers her experiments in rearing hybrids 

 of the Saturnidae her most interesting and important work. 

 The first moths which she succeeded in crossing were Samia 

 cecropia 9 with the western glovcri $ . These produced the 

 most beautiful progeny of any of her trials, being larger than 

 either of the parents, beautifully colored in crimson and gray. 



Afterwards she successfully crossed cecropia with ceanothi 

 and with Columbia. Cocoons of the latter species were sent 

 to her by her friend, James L. Mitchell, of Battle Creek, Mich- 

 igan, which were searched for by him with infinite patience in 

 the larch swamps of that locality. 



Our luna paired with the Asiatic selene and produced splen- 

 did great moths, retaining the shape of the latter, but having 

 the delicate color of the luna. In every case the progeny of 

 these matings proved infertile. 



Eight of these hybrids she sold to Baron Rothschild for $40. 

 and this was the only money she ever made from her life-long 

 work on Entomology. 



Among her many accomplishments was that of cabinet- 

 maker. For her collection she made a big cabinet of sixty 

 drawers, arranged in three tiers, doing even the glazing her- 

 self. Besides this, she made innumerable boxes for the surplus 

 odds and ends of her collection. 



Twice Mrs. Newcomb and myself have had the very great 

 pleasure of visits from her to our home, which was then a* 

 Dorchester, Massachusetts, and I shall always remember the 

 keen enjoyment of a day spent with her roaming the Blue Hills 

 of Milton with our nets. 



In 1904 she wrote me that her collection was becoming too 

 great a care and that if I wished I might have it. \Yhat a 

 wonderful thing to have a collection like hers to add to my own 

 modest efforts in that line. T immediately went to New Wind- 

 sor and together we packed it up and it was sent to my home. 



