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PHILADELPHIA, PA., SEPTEMBER, 1896. 



THE meeting of the entomologists of New York, Philadelphia, 

 Brooklyn and Newark on the fourth of July at the latter city was 

 an interesting one in many ways. The people gathered to- 

 gether had in common a love for natural science, but differed in 

 many other respects. Many trades and a number of professions 

 were represented. The greater number were either German, or 

 German descent, and if it were not for the interest taken in en- 

 tomology by these people, who evidently inherited this taste from 

 ancestors who derived their knowledge from the wisdom displayed 

 in teaching German school children natural history, we would 

 have little entomology in America. We hope to see the time 

 when such studies will be taught in our schools. It was Gladstone 

 who said the present fault of our school system is the lack of 

 teaching in natural history. 



WHILE not an author, the late Julius Flohr has been of assistance in 

 aiding the accumulation of material for others, notably for the authors of 

 the " Biologia. " In his journeys between Mexico and England he never 

 failed to visit Philadelphia to see the fine specimen of Heterosternus bu- 

 prestoidcs in our cabinet which seemed to have an irresistible attraction. 

 G. H. HORN. 



