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careful where he places his foot. Even such a danger as this 

 will not be thought of when one is chasing a fine specimen. 



I clearly remember on one occasion when I surely thought 

 my last hour had come. I had been collecting for a good 

 while, when a beautiful nrsula crossed my path, flew over the 

 tops of some trees, across a small brook and over a field. It 

 did not take me long to get up to the place where it had. 

 alighted, but instead of letting itself be caught, it flew up and 

 then across a wide stream. My mind was quickly made up as 

 to what to do. I waded through the stream, scrambled up on 

 the other bank and ran toward the bush on which it had 

 alighted. I quickly threw the net over my prize, and, stepping 

 closer, wanted to transfer it into my jar. Just as my foot 

 touched the ground I heard a fearful hissing, and before I 

 could look for the cause of it a large snake jumped out at me 

 from under the bush. Thanks to my net, it did not strike me, 

 but got entangled in the bag. Now instead of getting one 

 specimen, I had two, one of which I could not kill very well 

 with my jar. 



The first thing I did was to get a good strong stick, with 

 which I managed to kill the serpent, which proved to be about 

 five and a half feet long, of a dark brown color, but fortu- 

 nately for me, not a copperhead. 



Thus we see that although collecting here is a little danger- 

 ous, Baltimore County ranks high in the production of butter- 

 flies and moths, which will always be the delight of our collec- 

 tors and admirers of Nature. 



MR. HENRY L. VIERECK has accepted a position as entomologist with 

 Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. 



THE collection of butterflies and moths made by the late Dr. Her- 

 man Strecker, of Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, has been sold 

 to the Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois. 



BUTTERFLY BOOTH. At the State Fair Pavilion the Most Interesting 

 Section in Big Hall. The collection of butterflies being displayed this 

 year at the pavilion by Fred Burns, of Reno, Nev., attracted hundreds 

 of people daily, and well it might, as they have been sent Mr. Burns 

 from all over the world. Newspaper. 



