1899] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



glassy bead like eyes. It is handled iu this vicinity us carelessly a- 

 the common June bug" and no person has been hurt. 



Last Monday those of the Nature Club who are interested in 

 botany and entomology went on a backboard, ride to Herrick's bog 

 in Northport. The day was beautiful, the company jolly and every- 

 thing pleasant, with the exception of the tramp on the bog. That 

 was " simply horrible." It was a lost opportunity for the most 

 -amateurish snap shot freak. The streams in a bog' are not very good 

 places for a seat, as two of the party realized. But then it was in 

 the interest of science. tl It was a great d iv for butterflies-" A 

 member of the Fourth of July horribles committee improved some 

 of the time in rehearsals. The doctor of the party disappeared and 

 caused some uneasiness, but appeared just five minutes before the 

 time fixed to start home and when some of the gentlemen had 

 found courage to organize a rescue party. One of the ministers 

 went on a foraging tramp ahead and caused just a few hoots to be 

 sent up Everything- considered, it was'a very decorous crowd. Two 

 entirely new flowers were added to the general collection a new 

 (ini/liixxdcfii and a corydalis while the individual herbariums 

 were increase,! by some common specimens. A recent convert to en- 

 tomology, who had formerly flocked with the ornithologists, showed 

 that he was not entirely free from the spell of his first love by vainly 

 attempting to capture a hen in a butterfly net. After having 

 driven about a mile and a half on the way home, it w i- found that 

 one of the ladies had left her umbrella behind, and a dignified city 

 official gallantly sprinted back to get it, making the round trip in 

 something less than five minutes. The next outing will be with 

 Mrs. E. S. Pitcher at the battery shore. . 



There was a small attendance at the meeting of the Xature ( lub, 

 Friday evening, on account of several] members having other 

 engagements. The roll-call showed that a large majority of the 

 rnem'ie.s prefer the study of botany. The meeting adjourned to 

 Monday evening. 



At the adjourned meeting Monday evening Rev. J. M. Leighton 

 was chosen vice president an, I John It Dnnton treisurer, this com- 

 pleting the organi/;itiou. The du:vs were fixed at live cents per 

 month, li .v;iv voted to hold the regular meetings the second Mon- 

 day evening of each month. Methods of work. ere.. weredi<cu--e,l 

 and arrangements will be made for field work by the classes at 

 once. The executive committee state. Cor the benefit of interested 

 parties who have not yet joined, that the only ivqui-iies of mem- 

 be.ship are signing the constitution and paying t he dues. Members 

 may act their own pleasure or convenience a> to the amount or 

 nature of their studies Mo-.! of the members will do individual 

 field work, as many have done in I lie pa<l . anil in addition there 

 will be das- work ai.d field work by small parties. Some member- 

 col lee i or m ike ohscrvat ions of wh itever thev see in anv br inch of 



