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Upon her next visit to that city she hastened to the library 

 to see these treasures, and the good-natured librarian, noting 

 her eagerness, installed her in an alcove, telling her she could 

 study them there any time she was in town. 



Through the Canadian Entomologist she became acquainted 

 with W. H. Edwards, with whom she worked out the life- 

 history of that curious little butterfly, Fcniseca tarquinins. It 

 was she who discovered the larval habits of this insect on 

 one of her expeditions among the swamp-alders. She found 

 the caterpillar living within the masses of the downy plant- 

 lice, which swarm upon this tree. 



From Miss Morton's letters, Edwards has written in the 

 Canadian Entomologist a full account of the early stages of 

 this interesting insect, the plates having been drawn by Mrs. 

 Peart, of Philadelphia, showing the curious woolly larva and 

 the little monkey-faced chrysalis. 



In 1883 Miss Morton met Henry Edwards, who proved a 

 very kind and interesting gentleman, and greatly assisted her 

 with names and other facts. He was a most amusing and en- 

 tertaining visitor, enthusiastic and in raptures over the many 

 new specimens he caught while on a visit to her home. He 

 was a noted tragedian and after his death his splendid collec- 

 tion of Lepidoptera was purchased by his company for the 

 benefit of his widow and presented to the Museum of Natural 

 History at New York City. 



Among Miss Morton's friends was Prof. A. S. Packard, Jr.. 

 who was a kind and courteous correspondent. She drew and 

 painted many larvae for his contemplated work on North 

 American Lepidoptera and she possessed a copy of his beau- 

 tiful work on the Geometridae, of which group she had a large 

 assortment. 



Another friend of hers was Samuel H. Scudder and con- 

 siderable correspondence passed between them relative to his 

 work of changing the old Linnean generic names, which she 

 considered a grave mistake. In spite of their disagreement 

 they remained firm friends until he passed away. 



She also met Herman Strecker and colored for him many 



