1895-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 8l 



feet in height, slender, with a slight lisp to his articulation, which 

 gave to his naturally gentle voice a musical softness. 



Whether the newly-wedded pair at once took up their abode in 

 the house shown in the February number of the NEWS, or in the 

 one illustrated in the present number, I am unable to learn. As 

 it was in the last-mentioned that Say's death took place, it seems 

 quite probable that the other was their first home, and that he 

 afterwards moved into the one here represented. The present 

 illustration shows the house as it appeared in the Winter of 1888- 

 89. A portion of the original structure was burned in 1843, and 

 afterwards rebuilt somewhat differently in point of architecture 

 from the original, but the lower portion fronting the street to the 

 left, as in the engraving, long used as kitchen, dining-room, etc , 

 is as originally built by George Rapp soon after the Rappite 

 community was established in 1815, and afterwards occupied by 

 Thomas Say. With the purchase of the lands and buildings of 

 this community by Robert Owen, in 1824, it passed into the 

 hands of Messrs. Owen and Maclure, and seems to have been 

 transferred to Mr. and Mrs. Say, probably by either Alexander 

 or William Maclure, and later sold by the Says to David Dale 

 Owen. So, we only know that for a time at least it was owned 

 by Say, that it was within its walls that he breathed his last, and 

 that his ashes peacefully rest in a tomb located within the grounds 

 to the rear of the house here shown. 



Besides his connection with the Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, he was a foreign member of both the Linnean 

 and Zoological Societies of London. He was also a member of 

 the Masonic Fraternity. 



After the death of her husband, Mrs. Say remained for several 

 years in New Harmony, but later moved to New York, and made 

 her home with her sister. A few years before her death, which 

 occurred several years ago, and at the age of eighty-three, she 

 wrote an excellent letter to a friend in New Harmony. 



(To be continued.) 



CAPT. BEECHEY. tells us he saw many asses, heavily laden with Locusts 

 for food, driven into the town of Mesurata, in Tripoli. " Exped. to 

 Africa" p. 107. 



