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A CURIOUS PICTURE DISCOVERED AT HAMILTON COLLEQE. A curious 

 specimen of slow photography, says the New York Sun, came to light 

 recently in the renovation of the collection of insects in the natural science 

 hall at Hamilton College. It was years since the cabinets had been opened 

 or the specimens moved or rearranged. In a corner of a cabinet that 

 stood facing a window was a very large specimen of the common blue 

 swallow-tail butterfly (Papilio asterias], which had been all but destroyed 

 by butterfly lice, diminutive insects that work havoc among mounted 

 specimens unless their inroads are guarded against by chemicals. 



Inspector William P. Shepard, who was renovating the collection, re- 

 moved the butterfly and was surprised to find beneath it, on the white 

 paper with which the cabinet was lined, an exact reproduction of the in- 

 sect, even to the most minute curves and points in the outline of the wings. 

 The paper was carefully removed, and now forms an exhibit by itself in 

 another part of the hall. The process of photography had perhaps con- 

 sumed eight years, as the butterfly had remained in the cabinet undis- 

 turbed for at least that period. Philadelphia Record. 



PROFESSOR "How many legs have insects ? " Candidate "Five per 

 cent, of insects have no legs at all, 1 1 per cent, have one, 14 per cent, two or 

 three, 10 per cent, four and five, but none six." Professor "How in the 

 world did you get this answer?" Candidate " By carefully examining 

 the collection belonging to the Hamilton College." 



A NEW FOOD PLANT FOR HYPATUS (LIBYTHEA) BACHMANI. This 

 butterfly has been taken a number of times west of Lincoln, hovering 

 around over the large tracts of wolf-berry (Syniphoricarpus occiden fa/is), 

 which covers the low ground near the creek. The eggs and larvae have 

 a'so been found on this shrub, and Mr. Roscoe Pound, a former student 

 interested in the study of Lepidoptera, has collected and reared the larva* 

 to maturity on this wolf-berry. No hack-berry trees are to be found any- 



