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Notes and Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF 



THE GLOBE 



Changes of Address. 



Dr. C. L. Metcalf, for the past seven years Professor of Entomology 

 in Ohio State University, has resigned to accept the position of Pro- 

 fessor of Entomology and Head of the Department of Entomology in 

 the University of Illinois. He should be addressed in care of the Uni- 

 versity at Urbana, Illinois, after September first. 



On and after Aug. 1st, 1921, my residence address will be 3006 Chest- 

 nut Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, instead of 2120 Grand Avenue, after 

 >' '-^i to me there. GFORGK P. EARTH, M.D. 



R. Tompkins de Garnett has returned from a year's visit to France 

 and will now be permanently located at 583 Merrimac Street, Oakland, 

 California. While at Paris he made extensive notes in the National 

 Museum there on certain groups of Coleoptera. 



Crane-F'ies rf New York. 



Cornell University has just issued Part II of "The Crane-Flies of 

 New York," by Charles Paul Alexander. This part, which is published 

 as Memoir 38 of the University Agricultural Experiment Station, deals 

 with the biology and phylogeny of the crane-flies and gives representa- 

 tive crane-fly life histories, external and internal morphology, and con- 

 cludes with keys and descriptions. The monograph contains about 450 

 pages. 



To persons interested in research in the field covered by the Memoir, 

 copies will be sent as long as the supply lasts. Ask for M-38, and ad- 

 dre-s requests to Office of Publication, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, 

 New York. 



On the Destructive Method of Dismembering Types for 

 Preservation in Riker Mounts. 



In the editorial entitled "Depositories of Type Material" by J. A. G. 

 R., in the June number of ENTOMOLOGICAL XK\VS, that portion touching 

 on the above subject obviously refers to the policy adopted by the pres- 

 ent writer of placing certain fragile Orthoptera in cotton mounts. But 

 the adjective "destructive." as applied to this method of preservation is 

 certainly not justified, nor is "dismembering" a method of preparation 

 to be necessarily decried. In certain instances intentional dismembering 

 was indeed done, as in occasional cases of Blattidae, where the legs, 

 usually from one side of the body only, were removed to facilitate the 

 examination of armature, &c., or the abdomer. removed to better show 

 its characters. However, when one remembers that much of the type 

 material of Orthoptera in the National Museum came from the collec- 

 tions of early authors, the absence of parts and frequent partial dis- 

 memberment should not invariably be attributed to wilful vandalism on 



